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The woman is utterly ignorant to think that the gas should only be used to heat local homes. And it’s also blind to not see how even if THAT gas isn’t used in HER area,, why it isn’t a massive benefit to her.

Taxes pour into the local base,,local people who own the land get paid well. SHE gets paid rent for the pipeline on her land. Guys like her son get paying blue collar jobs (i heard the steel mills closed?) , now he buys a house, a car, a dinner out. The price for the gas she DOES use drops because the overall supply increases, her NATION benefits.

Tell her to grow up, or maybe read a book.

PS,, i don’t know how to break it to her,, but those chocolate bars they make in Hershey,,They ain’t all ate in Pennsylvania either.

This was actually the second article in a series on the issue from the Tribune Review. Please read it. Nat Gas prices in the US are far below world levels and people overseas are willing to pay a bunch for it. But,,, we need energy here, and with all the shale coming on line that could give US industry a boost, do we want our natural gas to be a world commodity?

Here's the heading and link to the first article on this published yesterday. Comments --- Pro? Con?

Natural gas prices set to jump with exports

Some companies that control America's natural gas are pushing for government approval to export gas overseas for higher profits on the international market, a move that will significantly drive up prices in the United States because this nation still imports more than 10 percent of its domestic needs. Among the biggest expected customers for American gas exports: energy-thirsty China, other Asian nations and Europe.
Link to the rest of the article here:

The question is, do we get the advantage domestically of low natural gas prices for residential, commercial, electric generation and industrial uses here, or does natural gas become another world commodity driven by other economies?