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To: U-238

Would increased fracking for natural gas lower gasoline prices?


4 posted on 02/15/2012 8:26:37 PM PST by tbw2
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I would say the combination of both.Gassification would be expensive at first, but it would pay off over time and the technology is already there. Now you have many coal mines now looking for business. South Africa oil and gasoline supply is made from coal.


5 posted on 02/15/2012 8:29:40 PM PST by U-238
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"Would increased fracking for natural gas lower gasoline prices?"

It would ultimately if we would commit to converting heavy trucks to run on nat gas instead of diesel. That would allow refineries to make more gasoline, increasing supply and lowering prices.

17 posted on 02/15/2012 9:16:24 PM PST by Josh Painter ("We intend to change Washington, not accomodate it." - Newt Gingrich)
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House Bill 1380.


19 posted on 02/15/2012 9:19:13 PM PST by meatloaf
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Probably not, as natural gas isn’t much of a transportation fuel. But the same fracking drilling technology being used so successfully for natural gas is also being used for oil, so over time, that will tend to help gasoline prices.


49 posted on 02/16/2012 9:42:01 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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