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Posted on 01/23/2026 5:05:44 PM PST by DoodleBob
With roughly two-thirds of the United States under some form of winter weather alert, energy experts are warning that a surge in heating demand could deplete America's natural gas reserves.
Why It Matters The United States relies on natural gas as its primary residential heating fuel and as a major source of electric power, so an extreme cold blast can simultaneously push up demand and constrain supply, creating rapid drawdowns from storage that help balance the system. Analysts said the expected demand surge, combined with possible production declines from freeze-related disruptions, could produce one of the largest weekly declines in storage on record, if forecasts verify.
What To Know Near-term U.S. natural gas futures jumped more than 70 percent this week, putting the market on track for its biggest weekly increase since 1990 and lifting prices to their highest level since 2022, according to data cited by financial outlets, CNN reported.
Forecasters warned that the storm poised to sweep the eastern two-thirds of the United States could lead to significant production disruptions as water freezes inside pipelines and associated infrastructure, a phenomenon known as freeze-offs that reduces gas flow.
Because natural gas accounts for roughly 40 percent of U.S. electricity generation, severe cold can raise gas burn in the power sector at the same time households increase heating, compounding storage draws during peak demand windows, per CNN. In parts of the South that rely more on electric heating, subfreezing temperatures can cause electricity demand to spike, increasing gas-fired generation needs and further pressuring available gas supplies and inventories, NBC News reported.
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Oh wait….
65 and sunny here in NW FL, top down crusin’ time for the Lexus.
Sounds like winter up yonder...
I saw a work crew fixing a row of EV charging stations the other day... The crew was driving a Ford F350 gas guzzling truck... The irony was profound.
Last I heard we were the world’s #1 producer of natgas.
I guess we need a national reserve like we do with Oil.
They are really hyping this storm. We’ll see.
Quick!
Install more solar panels.
Build more windmill generators.
Oh, and alert the magic unicorns.
That should do it.
Good thing we found a few trillion cubic feet for production last week.
energy experts
More fear mongering .... note that energy experts have no names, hence no risk for them being wrong again. When I see “experts” cited without names, I attribute the experts as made up by Fake News Muppets.
Give Alberta a LNG pipeline.
Judging by the way the snowflakes are gently falling straight down windmills wouldn’t be doing much either.
This is an historic event, never before has it gotten cold in the winter. World leaders are meeting in emergency session to try to figure out what to do next.
There’s a good chance one of their recommendations will be an immediate transition to socialism for all nations not currently following that model.
They even named it “Fern,” according to our internet service’s email about potential outages. Reminds me back in 1982 when an icestorm swept thru Birmingham and Atlanta and everything in between. It was mayhem for a week, and then it all melted and life went on.
Just shut down the interstate pipelines. Plenty for us here in Texas, and Oklahoma would probably have to flare off their excess.
Today Excel (energy company in CO) sent me an email with the title Why Gas Rates Go Up in Cold Weather. (went straight to trash)
Last week Excel sent out an email about their lobbying for higher gas rates. (also straight to trash)
Meanwhile Excel and other CO energy producers are destroying the electric production sector while the CO legislature is working to end all Nat Gas usage by 2050.
They are gonna start bitching about pipes again. You know, the pipes that bring you fossil fuels to heat your home when the entire country is on snow watch.
"They" means The Weather Channel in a flurry of self-promotion.
The issue in New England is that there are no pipelines bringing that stuff directly to the area. Digging up the ground and burying something is too environmentally disturbing. Nat Gas is used to both heat up here AND generate the power that others use to heat.
Gay Barry shouldn’t have declared war on coal energy then
“CNN reports…”
It rained in Southern California yesterday. This is probably the same storm.
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