Political Lipskip

Natural Gas is the Energy Answer – Government Morons Continue to Disagree

Let’s point out more stupidity from the federal government. No, I’m not talking about the debacle and criminal lack of competence in the Gulf oil leak and a cleanup. That is a given. What I am talking about is our government’s lack of interest in pushing for a much cleaner form of energy that can easily replace oil: natural gas. We import billions of dollars of the oil from countries that are not exactly our friends. Conversely we have enough domestic supplies of natural gas to supply ourselves with energy for many generations into the future. Natural gas is clean and is really the only thing that can realistically replace oil. Incredibly the president and congress have no interest in investing in the stuff.

Jim Cramer on CNBC has been pounding the table for a couple of years now that nat gas is a viable alternative to high oil prices and supply issues. Others have joined him yet the administration, as usual, turns a deaf ear to the obvious. Cramer, always looking for investments, suggests that nat gas exports will rise for this country as every other country in the world will need natural gas. We won’t be using our own resources but other countries will be happy to. From Jim Cramer’s Mad Money via Mad Money Recap:

I have been on a crusade to get the United States to embrace natural gas… the best way to cut carbon emissions… create hundreds of thousands of good paying jobs… reduce our dependence on foreign oil…no one is listening… we have so much of this fuel that it is ridiculous… we exceed Saudi Arabia on this stuff… with a heck of lot better human rights record, by the way… I have said that it is the obvious solution to all but Washington… all of our cleaner energy needs… and unlike wind or solar, it is actually viable in the near term… you plug in a car like a Tessa, which you should be selling, goes into a coal based system… that won’t work… we already have a huge working distribution network built out for natural gas.
Plus, drilling for natural gas is never going to cause the kind of ecological catastrophe that we are seeing right now with BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico… or the slag that we get off of coal… which everyone knows about but no one talks about… I said that we could use this fuel to run our cars and trucks… and to replace dirtier sources of energy, like coal, at our power plants in the United States… or at least that is what I thought.

But our government… uh-uh, and while our government has turned a deaf ear to arguments for natural gas… do you know what? The rest of the world has not… we may not want all of this natural gas goodness… but just about every other country seems to be seeing things my way… they thirst for the stuff… that is why I have arrived at a Eureka Moment!… we are within this decade become a huge natural gas exporter… I think the largest in the world… because it is now economical to export it to the rest of the world.

…I know that it is crazy… but as we crave dirty oil and import tens of billions of dollars worth of it annually… much from countries that despise us… we will most likely shortly become the worlds largest exporter of the cleaner and better fuel… ladies and gents, you just cannot make this stuff up.