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Originally Posted by dcb
I think it is still considered a "fossil fuel" though.
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Fossil or not natural gas can be made naturally from people, cattle and, trash etc. Its nothing more than dirty methane.
So getting ourselves off foreign oils to some extent by using Natural Gas as a gateway drug would be fine with me. From what i've read converting natural gas into synthetic gasoline or fuel oil is much more efficient than corn to ethanol, possibly could be made more efficient than cracking crude since you don't have to crack anything. Its sad that this tech has been more or less left alone.
It certainly wouldn't lower prices any though (even if it cost less than oil) because of the embedded government and oil lobby. But still I feel worthwhile to get our country to stop exporting money for oil.
Sad to say half of all so called retail sales last year were for gasoline, which I think is a scam, gas should be left out since it is only a drain on society and not really a normal "retail" item, can't wear it, can't eat it, can't build anything with it, but you can use it.