http://www.lancastereaglegazette.com/news/stories/20040111/localnews/208234.html
Bill Moore has added a way on evworld.com to do a quick-and-dirty check of these commodity prices (toward the bottom left-hand part of the screen): www.evworld.com As we can see, natural gas closed this weekend above $7 per million BTU (another site says the unit is 10,000 Million btu, so I'm a little confused on the units of that commodity, but I think the other site may be wrong, as the news stories also talk about million BTU). I wonder at what price it will be considered economical to start harvesting more methane from landfill, biowaste, etc. I haven't been too surprised to hear comparatively little (compared to the possible importance of the matter) about rising natural gas and oil prices this winter. One reason is that it's sort of "masked" in the usual expected-winter-increase, and another is that it's a little hard to keep track of energy futures prices and the issues that people have with them. Hopefully that will be a little easier with the prices on evworld.com. I also use this site: http://futures.tradingcharts.com/custom_menu.php3 This site has the added bonus of relevant not-entirely-mainstream financial news clipped per commodity, and some worldwide futures news perspective as well. While natural gas has skyrocketed, oil has quietly persisted at what used to be considered super-high prices, and closed this weekend above $34 per barrel: http://news.tradingcharts.com/futures/8/3/52405138.html One thing I noticed in the recent discussion of GM's hybrid problems is this attitude, from some, that change cannot occur so long as low prices persist in this or that area (a GM spokesperson gave the example of $1.50 per gallon gasoline being too low to warrant the sorts of vehicles demanded by enviros). Well: OK, but surely we have seen, over the last several years, enough evidence of sporadic price changes and volatility to warrant some concern that providers of Natural Gas and Oil can no longer assure (if they ever could) steady low prices. It does not take a genius or overly concerned homeowner to try to plan a little for the future. Whether you're a city planner or just trying to buy a car, I think if fuel prices are presently low but showing some indication of possible future sporadic high pricing, you might alter your plans depending on your fuel budget for the future. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?list=biofuel Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
