Oil vs gas. I think I get it.
Nat gas is quite the peculiar animal when it comes to transport. People think “hey, it’s kinda the same as propane”. Oh no, it’s massively different. As a delivered product at its normal pressure, it’s roughly similar to propane, certainly less energy-dense, but a great fuel nonetheless. IF you can get it by pipe.
Propane easily liquefies at about 120 lbs pressure, turns into a liquid, and that’s that. Nice, easy. The only inconvenient thing about propane is that it’s heavier than air, so in a boat, for example, it *can*, over long periods, accumulate in low spots in the bilge and develop an explosive fuel-air mixture. Pretty easily remedied by venting with or without an exhaust fan.
Natural gas, primarily methane, does not liquefy until you pressurize it to over 3000 lbs, and there’s a requirement to chill parts of the associated plumbing to cryogenic temperatures, also to let some part of your NG boil off. It’s a complete PITA and very non trivial engineering challenge. Lacking the ability to liquefy it makes it almost uneconomical to transport in any way other than via pipeline, as a vapor...if it was a liquid, then your pipeline would have to be 3000++ lbs rated, which “none” are and probably shouldn’t be when you think about earthquakes and things like that that can cause earth movement. If there’s no pipeline, your NG is “stranded”. You can’t really get it to market, nowadays you can’t flare it (and that’s a big sorry waste whether or not you’re an eco-person) and so many drillers are actually pumping it back into the ground because it’s a by-product of almost any kind of petroleum drilling.