Exactly.
We should be using our energy to retool our manufacturing base and rebuild so that we can be self sufficient in other ways in addition to energy.
I can’t understand why people just want us to make the fastest buck we can on energy now that we might desperately need later or could sell for a much higher price later.
It’s like eating your seed corn.
Not exactly. We’re in the situation of having so much seed corn we’re hampering the effort to grow more. Why grow more seed corn when your storage is over flowing?
The huge over supply of natural gas and the consequent low price have stopped drilling in some areas. Many are only drilling wells in areas where the wet gases that accompany natural gas such as propane, butane, ethane and pentane is sufficient to be profitable because the natural gas price is too low to be worth while drilling.