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Gas and Gustav: Natural Gas, the Hurricane-Safe Fuel
Posted on September 03, 2008
The Journal's Russell Gold reports:Chesapeake Energy Corp. has been running advertisements promoting compressed natural gas as a cheaper, more environmentally sound and home-grown alternative to gasoline. The campaigns kicker is, Rescue our dollar. Rescue our drivers. Rescue our environment.Maybe they should add another reason: natural gas production is less vulnerable than ever to hurricanes that batter the Gulf Coast.According to consultant and gas market tracker Bentek Energy LLC, the boom in shale gas is creating substantial new flows of natural gas from ground to consumer that avoid ...
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