The article ignores California’s push to ban oil and gas
Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager
This article totally ignores the elephant in the room of California’s increasingly severe policies that work toward the goal of banning oil & gas in the state.
It was amusing reading through the excuses of why California is paying 5 or 6 times the amount for natural gas than the rest of the U.S.
Of course, for years actively blocking new oil and gas pipelines from other states had nothing to do with it, right?
California is a self-mandated “Energy Island”.
Please do an internet search for
> California Energy Island
if you have no idea what I am talking about.
Go ahead California, work faster and harder toward your Green Energy Utopia of getting rid of hydrocarbons and making everything electric, 100% powered by wind & solar and any other “renewable” energy.
● Be the shining example to the rest of the world that you don’t need or want hydrocarbons.
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“Perhaps you’ve heard PG&E and its counterparts’ explanation:
● demand was up and wholesale gas prices spiked.
San Diego Gas spoke with our sister station, NBC 7 Responds.
“This increase is much larger than we ever could have anticipated,” said Candace Hadley, a utility spokesperson.
… Wholesale natural gas prices are regional and change daily. We looked at a stretch in January.
● California’s gas prices were four, five, and almost six times higher than much of the U.S. for days.
● In some other parts of the country, there was extra natural gas– so much that some producers were paying others to take it off their hands.
“In January and February for most of the United States the weather has been warmer than normal, said Chris Higginbotham with the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
● “And that has meant natural gas demand has gone down, it’s below average right now.” …