Comments on: The Rodney Dangerfield of fuels http://www.marcgunther.com/2009/06/29/the-rodney-dangerfield-of-fuels/ This blog is about the impact of business on society. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:27:13 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Carolyn http://www.marcgunther.com/2009/06/29/the-rodney-dangerfield-of-fuels/comment-page-1/#comment-256242 Carolyn Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:59:35 +0000 http://www.marcgunther.com/?p=1073#comment-256242 Does publishing an industry lobbying group's promotional statements pass for journalism these days? What about the environmental impacts of natural gas exploration and production? And what about biomethane (aka "cow power") which is a carbon-negative renewable fuel that serves as a substitute for natural gas? Does publishing an industry lobbying group’s promotional statements pass for journalism these days? What about the environmental impacts of natural gas exploration and production? And what about biomethane (aka “cow power”) which is a carbon-negative renewable fuel that serves as a substitute for natural gas?

]]> By: Peter T. Knight http://www.marcgunther.com/2009/06/29/the-rodney-dangerfield-of-fuels/comment-page-1/#comment-248127 Peter T. Knight Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:42:25 +0000 http://www.marcgunther.com/?p=1073#comment-248127 Marc, You raise a lot of legitimate questions, from indoor air quality in Africa to injecting chemicals into the earth in the Appalachians. Here’s another. Oil companies in Nigeria would flare gas or vent it to the air for safety reasons. Oil is more valuable because it is more easily exported. The gas is a nuisance because there is no local market. Much, but by no means all, of the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) that those oil companies were hoping to ship to the U.S. would have been saved from the flare, preventing considerable CO2 emissions. If the U.S. enables shale gas extraction there will be less of a market for foreign LPG. What will happen to the nuisance gas? It won’t be allowed to stay in the ground. Life is so very complicated. Marc,

You raise a lot of legitimate questions, from indoor air quality in Africa to injecting chemicals into the earth in the Appalachians. Here’s another. Oil companies in Nigeria would flare gas or vent it to the air for safety reasons. Oil is more valuable because it is more easily exported. The gas is a nuisance because there is no local market. Much, but by no means all, of the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) that those oil companies were hoping to ship to the U.S. would have been saved from the flare, preventing considerable CO2 emissions. If the U.S. enables shale gas extraction there will be less of a market for foreign LPG. What will happen to the nuisance gas? It won’t be allowed to stay in the ground.

Life is so very complicated.

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