I have NEVER been a drill only person. If you look up my past posts on this subject you should find I am a do EVERYTHING person. How you got that from my post is unbelievable. I was only speaking to the fact that not all areas of the USA have access to a lot of Natural Gas. As for the price to revamp coming down, it doesn’t matter if the availability of the natural gas is not there.
If you can get natural gas..then do it. I don’t have that access, since my home is electric like 90% of homes in my ares. That was the major point of my answer. Drilling is necessary for a certain amount of people, but for the others ALL ALTERNATIVES should be done. Any “alternative” must be mass produced, and massive amounts of places to refuel are necessary to travel from one area to another, to make it viable and reasonable in cost to the normal person...so we need gas in the meantime. Being a hothead about this accomplishes nothing!
Sorry for any misunderstanding of priorities.
“I was only speaking to the fact that not all areas of the USA have access to a lot of Natural Gas.”
The answer there is (a)more imports and (b)more pipelines (for imported and domestic supplies) and (c)less government regulatory interference to both (a) and (b).
In some areas both (a) and (b) are opposed by local politicians of both parties, due to local special interests that don’t want competition from natural gas. For instance, New Jersey has easy and plentiful natural gas and yet just a couple miles across the river in metro New York it is often not available or very expensive in many places. “Supply” is obviously NOT the issue in that case, and demonstrates the role of politics, government and regulation that often inhibits larger availability of natural gas.
World wide, and even domestically over time, there IS no actual shortage of natural gas for the whole country; only a shortage of the political will to permit the supplies to get out there.
One of the “political will” failures is the political treatment of energy suppliers as “just another company seeking too much profit”, when, the fact is that cheaper and more plentiful energy is not just good for homes, schools and hospitals (who politicians will readily subsidize - doesn’t make it cheaper, just shifts the cost), it is what EVERY business needs as well. Helping energy to be produced and delivered at less cost is good for the entire economy. Helping energy companies be more efficient and profitable at it (keeping the direct and indirect costs of government on them down) helps EVERYONE by helping them get more supplies to all.