Reply #5: The Coming Gas Shortage Is Real [View All]

[amandabeech]

At least imho. But seriously, this is my first serious post. I've had time on my hands the past few years that I have been in exile in a conservative area. I've done a lot, and I do mean a lot, of reading on oil and gas depletion and alternative energy. Landfill methane may be a nice local supplement to the energy supply, but the amounts of CH4 that we use to generate electricity, heat homes, businesses and water, and produce heat for chemical and manufacturing processes is truly astonishing, and there's simply not very much left in North America. With LNG imports, we will be competing with Japan, China, Korea, and, soon, Europe. But the gas problem is nothing compared with oil, perhaps starting as early as 2015. For more information, I suggest you read (and read a lot before you post and look like an idiot)messages on two Yahoo lists: energyresources and runningonempty2. Also check out books by Deffeyes and Richard Heinberg, for starters. Also, google "Matthew Simmons", an investment banker to Halliburton, located in Houston. He's in an absolute panic these days. I certainly hope that these people, geologists and investment bankers, are wrong, because if they are at all right, life could be rough 30-40-50 years from now, and not just from global warming. Amanda