On 1/30/06, Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 12:01 -0500, Grant Shipley wrote: > > After much discussion back in August (on this list) over why gas was > > so expensive...... > > > > I think we have the answer now. > > What concerns me far more than oil prices (gasoline) are natural gas > prices. Natural gas production has nothing to do with oil production > (other than the same companies are involved), yet the price of natural > gas is always linked to it, which I have a problem with.
Natural gas and oil typically come from the same deposits. What designates a reserve as a gas- or oil-reserve is usually the ratio of natural gas to oil. So thw two are related in that way. What makes them not related is the refinement process. Poorer countries rich in fossil fuel reserves (think: Africa) typically burn off the natural gas in their reserves because they lack the separate equipment and pipelines to get it to market. Gary Dusbabek National Geographic Reader since 1990 /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
