Natural Gas
Natural Gas
heats 70% of new homes, heats your water, dries your clothes, is a key
feedstock for fertilizer, processes your food, is a clean energy source for
power production, and is a feedstock for plastics. About 45% of the gas goes to
industry for pulp and paper, cement, asphalt, chemicals, plastics, and
Petroleum refining. Gas produces about half as much carbon per unit of energy
as Coal. The Nation has 320,000 gas wells Each year
280 Million Americans use as much gas as 3 billion people in 
In 2000 the price of wellhead gas skyrocketed 400%.
By some estimates about half the gas that has ever been produced in this
country is gone. Matt Simmons, an investment banker to the oil industry advised
the President that the situation is grave. We are not out of gas but can't keep
up with the demand.
Consumption
is going up and up as more power plants are built.
There is no way we can handle this increase for long
What does this
mean for our children? The youngest child alive now has a chance to live 100
years in a normal setting. What hardship and how long a lifetime will this
child have in a country unprepared and unwilling to make the necessary
sacrifices. Surely we could save some of this gas for them or invest it in
buildings and machines that will guarantee their future.
From Randy
Udall
Kermit Schlansker
ksssustain@provide.net