Monday, September 21, 2009

Coal Versus Natural Gas

E-mail to Congress:

EIN News says, "Energy Executives Give Natural Gas a New Push. Executives from some of the nation's largest energy producers are lobbying Congress for changes to a House-passed climate change measure that they say overlooks the benefits of natural gas and gives an unfair advantage to coal. Under a new ad-hoc umbrella organization known as America's Natural Gas Alliance, the business leaders are focused on making sure their industry doesn't get ignored by senators assembling their own climate-change bill. (chron.com)".
There is no indication here on the technical or economic basis on which coal obtains an unfair advantage over natural gas as an energy source. However, the likelihood is that climate control is the basis of the argument and particularly concerns the matter of carbon dioxide.
There is a ready solution to this problem. Do not have any climate control bill. I have repeatedly asked persons or groups to send me technical data which shows that carbon dioxide is involved in any aspect of man-made global warming. No one has seen fit to do so. I presume it's because no such data exists. Therefore, it would seem unreasonable for you folks in Washington to try to control something that doesn't need control and in so doing establish antagonism between different groups of basic energy suppliers.
Look at this simply and not simplistically. There is no need to control carbon dioxide. Therefore, there is no need for a climate control bill. Let the coal diggers continue to dig for coal and use it to make electricity. Let the natural gas producers continue to drill wells for increased production of natural gas. Hopefully, the latter will be able to develop the technology to access clathrates, for which there is evidence of very large quantities of natural gas availability.

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