Entry at Energy-Facts.org:

Our steadily increasing dependence on gas is worrisome — especially since gas supply is projected to decline through 2020. [2]

Fool Me Twice

Despite this supply decrease we continue to build out an ever more extensive natural gas infrastructure– verifying Santayana’s warning that: “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”

Our “dash to gas” over the past decade led to higher electric rates and increased home heating prices and it raised the cost of manufacturing. Why should the next decade be any different?

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EIA’s analysis of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 — the “Waxman-Markey” climate bill — came to this conclusion:   “Our results suggest that this legislation would likely increase the use of natural gas for generation over the next decade in all of the scenarios we analyzed…”

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