http://www.anga.usumbracoBlog description hereenhttp://www.anga.us/media-room/blog/2011/8/8/states-embrace-natural-gas-vehicles-and-fueling-stations#comment-138Thu, 08 Sep 2011 07:54:09 GMThttp://www.anga.us/media-room/blog/2011/8/8/states-embrace-natural-gas-vehicles-and-fueling-stations#comment-138http://www.anga.us/media-room/blog/2011/8/8/states-embrace-natural-gas-vehicles-and-fueling-stations#comment-136Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:56:54 GMThttp://www.anga.us/media-room/blog/2011/8/8/states-embrace-natural-gas-vehicles-and-fueling-stations#comment-136http://www.anga.us/media-room/blog/2010/3/9/denver-post-dan-rather-tout-natural-gas-for-clearing-the-air#comment-135Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:57:28 GMThttp://www.anga.us/media-room/blog/2010/3/9/denver-post-dan-rather-tout-natural-gas-for-clearing-the-air#comment-135 Now all we need is exceptional leadership
 Ludwig Von Sparkenberg, Ph.D.

The U.S.A. is blessed with exceptional natural resources, exceptional technology and an exceptional system of government. All we need now is Exceptional Leadership which will ignite the world economy. Just as FDR led us out of The Great Depression and World War II, Obama can lead us out of the Great Recession and Middle East.

The inescapable, new megatrend is that six billion people have been awakened to opportunity and are striving to earn a small slice of the lifestyle that 600 million of us enjoy and typically take for granted. If the six billion are even marginally successful and attain a paltry 10% purchasing power parity, global demand for everything must double. Therefore, the most important challenge of our age will be finding new ways to satisfy the world’s insatiable demand for oil (not to mention food, water and commodities).

Thanks to US technology, we have recently discovered that the U.S. is blessed with a 200 year supply of natural gas. We are the Saudi Arabia of natural gas which is less than half the price of gasoline. Oil is part of the cost of every product we consume from Mayo to mattresses.  The world is addicted to oil and can't kick the habit.  The environmentalist won't let us drill for oil in the U.S., so we import over one billion dollars of oil every day which accounts for half of our trade deficit.

Wall Street oil speculators, with the help of our politicians, have emasculated the U.S. consumer which is 70% of our economy.  Oil prices have gyrated due to speculation, not supply constrictions. The CFTC must place stricter limits on how many commodity contracts any one trader can control and raise margin requirements. When gasoline becomes 17% of GDP, the country goes into recession. Historically it has been around 12% of GDP, and recently it has come down to15% of GDP, but oil will go back up as soon as the economy shows some life. This will surely send the economy into another tail spin.  It's a vicious cycle that we need to eliminate by taxing oil, and subsidizing the conversion to natural gas, biofuels, coal-to-liquids and electric cars.

Rarely has there been a government program that does not add to our deficit. This one reduces it!  All Congress has to do is gradually increase the tax on a gallon of gasoline by 20 to 40 cents every year for the next ten years and use this huge revenue stream to reduce debt and subsidize the use of natural gas and green technology. The market will do the rest.  This tax will certainly hasten the transition to natural gas transportation. It will provide the key to our economic recovery.  Two thirds of our oil imports are used for transportation. If we substitute natural gas, the annual savings would ignite the American consumer economy. Without a government program the market will slowly move to natural gas, but why wait 20 years and prolong the pain felt by millions of Americans, not to mention the rest of the world? We desperately need this stimulus now!  Without government assistance our railroads, airways, highways and information highway would have evolved at a snail's pace.

This is not a one time dividend. Every year this program will put an additional $4,000+ per car back into every family's pocket and fuel the country's emergence from the current recession.  Can you imagine what a $8,000+annual savings per two car family would mean to Target, Home Depot, and every other business in the country? Time magazine reported that a 40 cent decrease in a gallon of gasoline would puts $60 billion in consumers’ pockets, which equates to $500 billion if we only used natural gas for transportation. This amount of consumer demand would jump start the world economy.  The U.S. would benefit from higher productivity, and eventually lower prices for almost everything, especially oil due to reduced demand.

We will enjoy a competitive advantage over the rest of the world economies because they lack the U.S's exceptional natural gas reserves. We will also benefit from a cleaner environment, and a trade surplus because we will export natural gas rather than import Arab oil. Freed from our dependence on foreign oil imports, our military will no longer be burdened with the responsibility of making sure our oil supply isn't cut off and our oil imports will no longer be subsidizing terrorism.  Our unemployed will find jobs building refueling infrastructure, cars and trucks.  With lower transportation cost our productivity will increase and the threat of inflation will disappear.  All of these things result in a booming economy and a budget surplus due to higher government tax revenues. A rising tide lifts all ships.
 
The U.S.A. is blessed with exceptional technology, exceptional, God given natural resources and an exceptional system of government, which can, with presidential leadership, tax imported oil, utilize our technology and subsidize natural gas, biofuels, coal-to-liquids and electric cars. The savings will put money in the hands of American consumers instead of sending it to foreigners. It will ignite an explosion of American productivity and consumerism that will restart the world economy. Yes, Mr. President, The U.S.A. can be truly Exceptional!. We just need Exceptional Leadership. 
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If natural gas is getting into ground water drinking supplies, then indutry methods aren't very good, are they? Can fracturing fluids be far behind the motion of the natural gas into groundwater?

Here is the final question that becomes really significant considering the events in Pennsylvania: Why is the industry so afraid that we will find out what is in fracturing fluid? ]]>http://www.anga.us/media-room/blog/2011/8/29/north-little-rock-accelerates-towards-a-cleaner-future#comment-154Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:06:51 GMThttp://www.anga.us/media-room/blog/2011/8/29/north-little-rock-accelerates-towards-a-cleaner-future#comment-154http://www.anga.us/media-room/blog/2011/9/28/our-message-natural-gas-is-hiring#comment-153Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:25:09 GMThttp://www.anga.us/media-room/blog/2011/9/28/our-message-natural-gas-is-hiring#comment-153http://www.anga.us/media-room/blog/2011/8/26/ngvs-cruise-from-the-east-coast-to-the-west-coast#comment-133Sat, 03 Sep 2011 15:04:44 GMThttp://www.anga.us/media-room/blog/2011/8/26/ngvs-cruise-from-the-east-coast-to-the-west-coast#comment-133http://www.anga.us/media-room/blog/2011/9/21/prof-engelder-hydraulic-fracturing-is-crucial-to-global-economic-stability#comment-150Thu, 29 Sep 2011 06:50:37 GMThttp://www.anga.us/media-room/blog/2011/9/21/prof-engelder-hydraulic-fracturing-is-crucial-to-global-economic-stability#comment-150http://www.anga.us/media-room/blog/2011/8/29/north-little-rock-accelerates-towards-a-cleaner-future#comment-149Thu, 29 Sep 2011 06:00:22 GMThttp://www.anga.us/media-room/blog/2011/8/29/north-little-rock-accelerates-towards-a-cleaner-future#comment-149http://www.anga.us/media-room/blog/2011/9/19/falling-for-natural-gas-vehicles#comment-148Thu, 29 Sep 2011 05:49:04 GMThttp://www.anga.us/media-room/blog/2011/9/19/falling-for-natural-gas-vehicles#comment-148