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The ongoing natural gas crisis is exacting a heavy toll on America’s nitrogen fertilizer producers and the farmer customers they supply. The cost of natural gas — which is used as a feedstock in nitrogen production — accounts for as much as 90 percent of the cost of producing [...]
They said that the "California Energy Crisis" was a supply issue when it was just simple deregulation at the state level coupled with the federal government halting all oversight of electronic exchange commodity markets and derrivatives, and Enron was busy driving up the price by speculating on futures to drive up their profits. [...]
Reviewing a host of recent studies, Buckley and Mityakov show that estimates of job losses attributable to cap-and-trade range in the hundreds of thousands. The price for energy paid by the American consumer also will rise. The studies reviewed showed electricity prices jumping 5-15% by 2015, natural gas prices up 12-50% by 2015, and gasoline [...]
events? Currently oil prices have everyone’s attention, so why don’t people take the time to understand how the prices are set and then realize we have had problems (and until recently Congress has only made them worse) with commodity market regulation: Enron drove up California energy prices in 2000-2001, Amaranth doubled natural gas [...]
DOM is a massive ERI or Excess Royalty Interest located in Alabama. I bet you did not know that Alabama had gas wells. I really did not know this but they do. They are low quality coal seam wells. Dominion Resources sold these wells to Highpoint that runs them. It [...]
with the high cost of energy,0.00 a month light bills and natural gas prices for the homes in the winter time going through the roof,why shouldn’t people be able to buy solar energy systems at an affordable price.Only the people who can afford to pay the high cost of heating an air conditioning can afford [...]
The Kansas City Star on February 16, 2007 reported on the lowering prices of natural gas. With lower natural gas prices and unseasonably warm weather early this winter the forecast is that gas-heating customers will pay 0 as compared to ,159 last year. At Kansas Gas Service, last year, the price of 1,000 cubic feet [...]
DALLAS – A .7 million compensation package and million pension payout to Exxon Mobil Corp.’s former chief executive and chairman Lee R. Raymond has some shareholders and economists asking, "how much is enough?"
"Some folks will ask the question, ‘Is this more evidence of big oil taking an enormous windfall and retaining all the riches?’" [...]
This happened today when oil and natural gas prices are skyrocketing and China is drilling off the coast of Florida with Cuba !
I’m just wondering.
Say I think it’s going to be a cold winter and also that whoever is elected President next year and whoever controls Congress will be vehemently opposed to nuclear power. As a result I think natural gas prices will double, thus daily rates for drilling equipment will double.
It [...]
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Natural gas prices *broadly* follow the trend in oil prices, because of inter-fuel competition and the continuing….
I’m a college student and I’m moving into my first apartment with some friends of mine. WIth the way natural gas prices are going, being energy efficent at home is of the utmost importance. I’ve been researching information on the subject but I haven’t been able to find any general information telling me how many [...]
Natural gas prices have risen recently due to the fact they have built several natural gas powered electric plants. I think he is on to a good idea. What do you think?
the whole point of Pickens plan is to use wind to replace natural gas electric plants.
With natural gas prices rocketing sky high – what are you doing to keep your heating bills at a minimal? Any unique ideas to heat up your place without giving up your arm this coming winter?
Currently we have an air-forced duct system in place. I really hate it, the heat does not [...]
I have thought this from day one!! The gasoline and record high natural gas prices and oil prices I think is what really drove the world wide economy over the edge. Money had to spent on energy and not other things!
i am trying to find out what the current price of engine fuel is in Bangladesh at the moment. I know that their natural gas prices have climbed but need to know about gasoline. Thanks
Gas was about .25 per gallon when Bush took the Presidentail reins in his first term.
Last week, Big Oil’s first-quarter profit reports came rolling in with more bad news for consumers. On April 26, Exxon/Mobil reported that even though it produced less product than last year, it earned profits of 10 percent on unusually high [...]
Do you remember the commercials where T Boone Pickens says we should use natural gas in cars and use wind to make electricity?
Chesapeake Energy bought all kinds of leases but will let them go unexplored because natural gas prices have fallen so much.
We can’t use natural gas if they don’t drill for it. Right?
http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=CHK#chart1:symbol=chk;range=2y;indicator=volume;charttype=line;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined
This from an article on U.S. Oilfield Deaths:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080911/ap_on_re_us/oilfield_deaths;_ylt=Aut7FWxCweTuflAVBY9AtV9H2ocA
"A dramatic increase in drilling, spurred by record-breaking oil and natural gas prices. The number of workers in oil and gas jobs shot up from 290,000 in 2002 to 428,000 in 2007. In July 2002, 740 land-based oil and gas rigs were operating in the United States; today, [...]
Postage is rising again today, and each day the gasoline price tag has changed. Not to mention almost all food products have risen in prices or are about to. Truckers are protesting, no one is able to make a living out there. I read (a couple days ago) how people are giving up their pets [...]
with the continuing rise in natural gas prices, I am seriously considering ripping out my gas furnace which is about 15 years old and not a high efficiency furnace, and replacing it with an electric unit. I am in a 92 model year mobile home. My utility bill for gas currently runs around 150 month [...]
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Natural-gas-surges-on-record-apf-2278066234.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=4&asset=&ccode=
Natural gas prices are up because supply is down. Supply declines at this time of year because the fuel is used as a heating fuel.
Supply is still higher than the 5-year average – because it was so high in Fall, causing prices to then be quite low. [...]
Will Natural Gas prices start trending up? Please state your opinion and why. Thanks!
I stumbled on these two links yesterday while I was browsing Yahoo answers.
Please read at least the second one, its kind of a summary of the first, these explian the true reason oil and natural gas prices are so high. The first link was put out by the US Senate but ignored, by congress and [...]
So I live in Northern Illinois. The current cost per therm for natural gas is about {content}.45. In 2008 it average about {content}.95. We just locked in for the next five years at {content}.79. Does this seem worth it? I don’t know much about the fluctuation of natural gas prices. [...]