Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Gas sells in PA @ $2 per M BTUs – In China & India @ $12 per M BTUs- PA gas is going international


Reasons to NOT export liquid natural gas:
  • Global Warming
  •  The price of the gas we use to heat our homes will rocket to international prices.
  • A terrorist attack on a liquid natural gas tank farm or liquid natural gas tanker is like a Hiroshima A bomb without the radiation.

American Gas companies sell fracking gas domestically for about $2 per million BTUs. They can sell it to India and China for about $12 million BTUs.


Once the Dominion Cove Point Liquefaction and Export facility near Baltimore, MD goes into operation the price you pay to heat your home in Coatesville or West Chester will go up 3 times or more to international levels.

Natural gas prices dropped below $2 per million BTUs last year. As a result, electric utilities switched from coal to cleaner natural gas, which emits less carbon when burned. 
FROM: 
Wonkblog 
What happens when natural gas is no longer dirt cheap 
By Brad Plumer March 22, 2013




NEW DELHI: As India debates raising natural gas rates, China has signed a US $ 400 billion deal to buy gas from Russia at US $ 11-13 per million British thermal unit. 
From: 
India debates gas price hike, China contracts at US $11-13 per million British thermal unit 
PTI May 27, 2014, 04.52PM IST
MON JUL 14, 2014 AT 08:37 AM PDT
By mimi






Monday, June 9, 2014

Scruffy city squirrel with a taste for chocolate peanut clusters

If the weather was nice or even just bearable I liked to enjoy lunch in a park near my workplace. That meant Independence Plaza or Washington Square Park.

There was a candy store on 7th. Street on my walk to Washington Square Park. One time I bought a small bag of chocolate covered peanuts, peanut clusters, enough to eat with lunch with a little bit extra to take home.

The torn off hair on the squirrel's tail told me he was a warrior. He, or maybe it was she, controlled a piece of sidewalk and trees on the northeast corner of Washington Square Park.

He knew I had the chocolate covered peanut clusters.

I was on his bench.

They were his chocolate covered peanuts.

He sat on his hind legs 6 feet in front of me staring.

I didn’t throw him any peanut clusters.

He barked. Squirrels bark.

The staring and barking didn’t work so, his next move was charging my (his) bench, biting my ankle, running back to the 6-foot line and staring.

I threw him peanut clusters.

He ate them.

He barked for more.

He bit my ankle again.

I didn’t have any peanut clusters left to take home.

Some people recommended having at least $10.00 cash at all times in case you were mugged. You didn’t want to anger the mugger and get beaten up. So I bought a bag of peanut clusters being sure to have enough for the squirrel when I ate my lunch at Washington Square Park.