I would rather not have the government selecting what fuel I use. We have too much interference in the market place as it is.
If NatGas was so much more valuable, then it would me so much more expensive. It isn’t.
To go along with my comments on another thread, our two NM Democrat senators (both radical environmentalists) have come across another natural gas bogeyman that will require industry to spend money on to resolve what essentially is a natural problem. Some satellite data taken a few years ago found a large methane spike in the four corners area. Immediately the environutters blamed it on the oil and gas companies and are gearing up to require lots of "remedial" action.
Unfortunately, there are lots of native fractures and seeps up there that release the gas. Some has been due to the coal gas extraction where gas released during production migrates to the surface through natural pathways. There is no way to mitigate this without shutting down production, which of course, is what they want. Impacts, according to the climate scientists, are more serious than CO2 as they claim methane is more of a potent greenhouse gas than CO2. These are the same folks that want to put gas recovery diapers on cows and otherwise prevent methane release from gas hydrates in the ocean and Alaskan tundra.