[thackney]

Including the natural gas that was entering the US thru pipelines or could enter the US thru pipelines plus the LNG that was entering the US thru pre-existing LNG terminals or could enter the US thru the pre-existing LNG terminals, the US never had to supplement her supply with new terminals.

It is easy to say that today. In 2000 almost no one would have agreed. That is why the majors were willing to spend billions for the new LNG import facilities. George Mitchel probably would have agreed with you at the time.

Would you happen to know what the percentage of total NG use in the US was being fulfilled by the import pipelines and the preexisting LNG terminals?

You can do the math by comparing the above data (charts link to data) combined with the breakdown per LNG location at:

http://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/xls/NG_MOVE_POE1_A_EPG0_IML_MMCF_A.xls

Then compare to total usage at:

[thackney]

Then compare to total usage at:

http://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/ng_cons_sum_dcu_nus_a.htm