Tag Archives: natural gas

No Easy Answers

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com

While waiting for some actual news about that missing airliner, my attention moved back to Ukraine generally, and to the whole sanction thing in particular.

In the modern era when one country – say the United States – decides to use sanctions to bring to bear a change in behavior of another country – say Iran – the sanctions often include freezing any accounts with any connection to the sanctioned nation. Continue reading

Gas

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com

New data from the Environmental Protection Agency indicates that drilling for natural gas releases significantly less methane (the main component of natural gas) into the atmosphere than previously thought.

Twenty percent less.

This is not seen as good news for the ultra-environmentalists who fervently believe that any fuel made from fossilized plant or animal matter (coal or natural gas) is bad. Continue reading