Fossil Fuels May Not Dwindle Anytime Soon
The U. S. Energy Information Administration foresees continued dominance for coal, gas and oil.
The U. S. Energy Information Administration foresees continued dominance for coal, gas and oil.
The United States is the world's largest consumer of oil, using more than 19.4 million barrels a day in 2015.
Fracking accounted for a mere seven percent of total U.S. natural gas production in 2000 and produced 3.6 billion cubic feet of gas per day. By 2015, America produced 79 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day.
"It's going to take a very long time before we can wean ourselves from fossil fuels, so I think that to keep it in the ground is naive, to say we could shift to 100 percent renewables is naive...""
There's no evidence -- zero, zilch, nada -- that fracking contaminates drinking water. Researchers hoped to keep these findings secret.
It's the first such overseas shipment of the state's oil since Congress lifted a 40-year ban on crude export in December.
LNG coming out of the U.S. is probably the single most important thing that will transform the future LNG market... It heralds the arrival of a global market.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration forecasts that U.S. drivers will pay an average of $2.04 per gallon this summer for regular gasoline: 59 cents/gal lower than the average price last summer, and it would be the lowest average summer price since 2004.
Seventy-seven percent of registered voters are concerned that breaching the ethanol blend wall could drive up the cost of gasoline for consumers and reduce the nation's fuel supply (85 percent of Republicans, 75 percent of Democrats and 71 percent of Independents), according to a new poll of registered voters conducted by Harris Poll on behalf of API.
"This administration has issued a slew of regulations intended to stifle gas use," maintained former US Sen. George Allen from Virginia.