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To: lonestar67

The problem is that no one has an economical way to use that gas because it is too diluted. If it were easy to solve that problem, it would have been solved a long time ago.

You don’t understand how markets work. If the US increases supply massively, prices would drop and much of the gas we produce would be losing money for the producer. What gas comes to market is based on where the gas can be produced cheapest.

We cannot simply throw all of our gas and oil onto the market the way you seem to think without losing money.


35 posted on 04/15/2014 6:20:00 AM PDT by Monmouth78
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To: Monmouth78

Dilution is not the problem.

The problem is a lack of pipelines and laws against export is the problem.

Understand that gas prices have already fallen massively in the US. They are exacerbated by the failure to allow export of LNG.

Again, this is something that genuinely does merit federal intervention. If building this infrastructure was what was necessary, it would produce:

1. energy independence
2. the decline of petroradicalism exported by Russia and Saudi Arabia
3. Net reductions in the need for US military force projection to protect energy source routes

Also keep in mind that what I am describing is going to happen whether democrats win or not. Republicans can accelerate the process. Unless the government seizes all private property, they cannot stop what I am describing.

America is doomed to repeat as the Global exceptional. We have vastly more fossil fuels resources than other nations. The hoax is up.

Maintaining artificially high corporate tax rates can also slow the process but not prevent it.


38 posted on 04/15/2014 8:31:51 AM PDT by lonestar67 (I remember when unemployment was 4.7 percent / Cruz 2016)
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