What's that hissing sound?
Worried about oil running out? Don't look now, but natural gas is next
on the endangered hydrocarbons list.
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By Jeff Nachtigal, salon.com
Aug. 10, 2004 | Oil prices hit an all-time high Monday, topping out at
$44.97 a barrel. There are a bundle
Electricity is generated by coal, nuclear power,
hydropower or natural
gas. Natural gas currently powers about 20 percent of
the United
States'
electricity plants, but that rate is sharply rising
because low cost
has
made gas the fuel of choice. In 2003, more than 300
new gas-fired power
stations
Louis Proyect writes:
Darley touches briefly on alternative sources of energy, such as
hydrogen, solar and wind, but discounts them as full-scale replacements
for oil and gas because their implementation is too expensive.
Nonsense. Darley seems not to realize that hydrogen, which
must be
