MSNBC just had an ad claiming that Natural Gas could power the US "indefinitely" and "won't run out"

[Ediacara]

UNBELIEVABLE!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_Energy

[Mojorabbit]

1. I want to scream

whenever I see those adds.

[MUAD_DIB]

2. Was it a T Boone Pickens ad?

I don't trust that guy.

[Ediacara]

3. No, it was Chesepeake Energy

I tune out Pickens...

ON EDIT: even Pickens and McClendon understand that NG is a temporary step toward renewable energy. This ad was seriously implying that natural gas would never ever run out!

[MUAD_DIB]

7. Well, if humanity dies out within the next hundred years then

technically they'd be right.

[LeftyMom]

4. It's magic!

:woohoo:

[notadmblnd]

5. well the haynesville shale is supposed to be hugegantic!

trillions of cubic feet of gas. Google it.

[Ediacara]

6. Trillions of cubic feet is finite and will run out

[tjwash]

8. The U.S. also imports LNG from Algeria...

...because our demand for natural gas is a tad bit greater than our production. So we need to foresee the coming hardship of a natural gas-dependent US holding out its hat to LNG shippers. Importing LNG right now is helping to set a new price floor, but ultimately it is going to recreate the same economic issues that we are experiencing with oil.

[derby378]

9. Smells like bullshit to me!

Not that I'm against exploring the use of CNG or anything, but I do not trust Chesapeake any further than I can throw them. They are the right arm of the "Pickens Plan."

[WindRiverMan]

10. It is not completely out there

obviously all fossil fuels are finite, but we do have a ton of natural gas. Coal bed methane, the Pinedale Anticline, the Wasatch Shales, and a new field just discovered in Lousianna is huge. Also, the north slope of Alaska has tons of the stuff, which the oil companies have just been ingoring in order to pump more crude. Running natural gas in say, twenty five percent of our cars could really be an option. Like Brazil, along with hybrids and biofeuls, we could be completely energy independent and much greener.

[Ediacara]

11. I'm not against NG as a step toward non-poluting renewable car power

But "never run out" is unmitigated bullshit.

[TankLV]

12. Of course - as long as there are repukes still talking and walking...

the "gas" will never run out...

[baldguy]

13. Keep eatin' them beans.