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Natural Gas Glut Pushes Exports

The Wall Street Journal -- Energy companies are racing to export natural gas from the U.S. as they search for more-profitable markets amid a continent-wide gas glut that has depressed prices to the lowest levels in a decade.

A consortium including Exxon Mobil Corp., XOM +0.57% ConocoPhillips Co. COP +1.11% and BP BP.LN -1.10% PLC said late Wednesday it is moving forward with plans to export natural gas from Alaska's North Slope in a project that could cost as much as $65 billion. The long-awaited effort is expected to have a significant impact not just on Alaska and its economy, but also on U.S. construction and manufacturing companies that would supply steel and other materials for an 800-mile pipeline and the plant that would convert the gas into liquid for export on tankers.

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Submitted Oct 05, 2012 By: skb69sa

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HawaiianGuy Champion Author Idaho Posts:9,665 Points:3,106,590 Joined:May 2003	Message Posted: Oct 6, 2012 3:28:57 PM Ignore HawaiianGuy Report Abuse Right. All this talk about energy independence is just that; TALK. Just WITF are we doing?
remay Champion Author Houston Posts:7,078 Points:2,143,965 Joined:May 2006	Message Posted: Oct 6, 2012 7:31:56 AM Ignore remay Report Abuse Now if US companies just took advantage of the technology for powering vehicles, and export the new vehicles as well!
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tomok Champion Author Portland Posts:33,598 Points:2,373,210 Joined:Aug 2006	Message Posted: Oct 6, 2012 1:50:30 AM Ignore tomok Report Abuse Natural Gas Glut Pushes Exports? If there is a natural gas glut then why export the natural gas? Big Oil continues to sell fuel and natural gas on the world market for higher prices, there will be NO price reduction for the cost of fuel or natural gas IN the US. 'Coming out of the closet' Fred's lousy, smoke and mirrors, lack of jobs, dog and pony show and in the crapper economy, the jobs are Not here. Fred's economy is not improving but continues to hurt the population and the job numbers continue to be down – no matter how smoooooth talking Fred spins those numbers! People will still drive and buy fuel no matter what but it sure helps to have a job too! The US ‘oil and natural gas resources’ belong to the citizens of this country and are to be used by those same citizens! Speculators, manipulators and the banks continue to unfairly and unjustly make the driving public pay higher prices at the pump for their personal benefit. How much will gas prices go up and they will rise, the trend is always up with fuel prices. The price at the pump needs to go down to $2/gallon, $3, $3.50/gallon or $4.00 is Not the new low! Whatever the size or shape of the vehicle, Produce and ‘Drive’ vehicles with high MPG, are very safe, reliable, have a ‘reasonable’ cost and a good ‘value’ for the money. The price of fuel at the pump is too high! XII/XXII/MMXII!
rjhenn Champion Author Des Moines Posts:22,611 Points:2,257,075 Joined:Aug 2005	Message Posted: Oct 5, 2012 11:08:03 PM Ignore rjhenn Report Abuse Does anyone actually bother to even read the OP? They're talking about gas from the North Slope of Alaska. You know, Alaska, that bit of the US that even the southern part of which is separated from the rest of the US by about a thousand miles of rough country in Canada. Who's going to ship natural gas from Alaska to the rest of the US, when we've already got more than we can use?
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streetcars Champion Author Toledo Posts:12,404 Points:2,634,340 Joined:Apr 2005	Message Posted: Oct 5, 2012 9:21:41 PM Ignore streetcars Report Abuse Just what we need, first they ship our jobs overseas and now the rich are going to ship our natural resources overseas to be used against us. This country don't have a chance for a recovery as long as the greedy bastards run the show.
jkpsr Champion Author New Jersey Posts:4,207 Points:1,127,915 Joined:Jun 2005	Message Posted: Oct 5, 2012 9:21:34 PM Ignore jkpsr Report Abuse Liquify and get all large trucks to convert to it. This will absorb a good portion of it and make our air cleaner as well as containing shipping costs. According to industry experts, this, alone, would completely eliminate the need for Middle East oil.
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pa79th Champion Author Pennsylvania Posts:1,922 Points:1,243,800 Joined:Jun 2007	Message Posted: Oct 5, 2012 9:08:49 PM Ignore pa79th Report Abuse Sell it to Detroit! They are the ones not making the natural gas enigines for cars.
mrbee Champion Author Little Rock Posts:3,894 Points:2,493,530 Joined:Oct 2005	Message Posted: Oct 5, 2012 9:07:44 PM Ignore mrbee Report Abuse This is good for the eonomy. More jobs.
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bonzoonfmb Champion Author Florida Posts:1,817 Points:664,910 Joined:Feb 2010	Message Posted: Oct 5, 2012 8:46:48 PM Ignore bonzoonfmb Report Abuse The energy companies would rather burn it off and waste it rather than provide it at a price where they might lose a few pennies.
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