With so much natural gas here in the U.S.,why are the candidates not considering natural gas as a solution to

Question

absolutley blows my mind how Bush can go over to Saudi and request them to release a few million more barrels a day to us. The 2 candidates are no better. I havent heard them even consider it. let's see, spend 2 bucks a gallon on natural gas or 4 on gasoline. wake up!

Answer 1

And what are you going to do with the natural gas? Put it in your car?

In that case, every car in America (not to mention anything else that runs on gas) would have to be retro-fitted to run on it.

It isn't economically feasible to do such a massive change over. Even as a long-term down the road solution it would simply cost too much money.

Answer 2

Who told you we had "so much natural gas"? We are about to hit a peak in natural gas too. Natural gas comes off the top of salt domes where you get your crude oil from. Since we are experiencing a oil shortage, so the same goes for natural gas. When a natural gas well goes out, it goes out just like that. It isn't like an oil well where the oil goes down gradually. Why do you think the cost of natural gas is going up? Your electric bill should be going up as well if the electric company uses natural gas to generate electricity.

Answer 3

natural gas is just like oil, use it up doing stupid stuff, then what. NATURAL gas must only be used to heat homes and for cooking.  Never for electricity of major transportation use.

The reason, we can make electrity from anything, wind, solar, coal, nukes, but we cannot make natural gas, their is no substitue.  And before you talk about coal gasification or producers gas, we could switch to that but we would have to double or natural gas pipelines and replace all of our appliances burners, how much would that cost???

Natural gas in cars is cheap now, but the price of CNG will match gasoline soon.

Answer 4

The US is already importing the stuff so it isn't that much of a solution (and it is only a little bit cleaner than the other fossil fuels).

Getting more natural gas out of the ground isn't as stupid as building wind turbines that displace natural gas powered electricity but which require natural gas to backup their unreliability thereby increasing natural gas demand for electricity (Pickens would make a lot of money from subsidies out of that stupidity).

Answer 5

I totally agree! I have 2 cars that run on natural gas right now, and they're great. It's cheap, it's clean, and it's here! I think the politicians really aren't aware of natural gas as a fuel for cars. I wasn't either until 8 months ago; never heard of such a thing. Then gasoline got expensive and I started looking for something else to run a car on. Voila - cng cars. They're out there, but hardly anyone knows about them. I try to tell anyone who will listen about them, but I guess it's going to have to be the politicians who can get things really rolling. Wake up, indeed! Let those in power (or about to be) know what's up, and hopefully, things can be turned around for all of us.

Answer 6

So we go from  being dependent on oil to CNG - have you seen what NG costs?  Like some fellow posters said - we import  natural gas too. There are so many households that use it for heating, cooking etc.  Why don't you tell them about how great it is and how cheap it is - standby for the impact!!

We need alternative solutions that are feasible

Answer 7

So much natural gas???   Where do you get that idea from?   The US cannot produce enough NG to cover what we already use.    Canada is having a hard time keeping up with producing enough to cover the shortfall.   A gas pipeline from Alaska is planned, but that won't cover what we use for long.     40 LNG terminals are proposed for various ports around the country for the importation of Liquefied Natural Gas from as far away as Indonesia and UAE (both muslim countries).    Each LNG tanker would be carrying 200,000 cubic meters of liquid gas, or the equivalent of 540,000,000 cubic meters of atmospheric pressure natural gas.   Figure 1 ship per day at each of the final 7 terminals that will be built.   That won't fuel every vehicle in the country.   A start yes, but we're still buying the fuel from countries that support terrorism.