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A Shale of a Future…


Did you know the U.S. is now the world’s largest producer of natural gas? It seems this clean, abundant and American resource is all the buzz these days. From the Wall Street Journal saying natural gas will “rock our world,” to economists and educators joining the scientific consensus that it offers a solution for our [...]

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Nat Gas Comes Home to Arkansas! My Home State…


As an Arkansas native, I can attest that we know a good thing when we see it. When I first joined ANGA, I can’t tell you how many of my friends from back home called to wish me well-and ask about the exact location of the Fayetteville and Haynesville shales. Word was getting out about [...]

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NGVs/CNG Picking Up Steam!


The United States imports 12.2 million barrels of oil a day, much of it from unstable parts of the world, according to a recent article in Forbes. But we also have generations worth of natural gas “spanning 22 independent shale basis in 20 states.” No surprise then that companies and cities across the nation are [...]

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A New Nat Gas Now Video… Cleaner Streets, Cleaner Skies


If you’re a follower of Nat Gas Now or energy headlines generally, you’ve hopefully heard that America has as much clean natural gas as Saudi Arabia has oil. It’s creating jobs. It can improve our environment. But only IF we increase our use of this abundant, domestic energy source. In my recent installment of Nat [...]

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Thanks Washington Post…


Next time you heat up the grill, turn on the lights or relax in your air-conditioned home, thank George Mitchell. Back in the early eighties, Mitchell had a problem. Natural gas reserves were dwindling near the surface, threatening his production company. So Mitchell pursued the “radical idea” of drilling more than a mile into the [...]

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Cleaning Our Air… With NGVs…


There are over 250 million cars, buses and trucks traveling down American streets, highways and roads each day.  That translates to a price tag for fuel of about $1 billion per day. It’s also  costly in terms of harmful air emissions.
A recent op-ed in Politico highlights the opportunity we have to help clean our air by [...]

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Right here… right now…


As our country looks for innovative ways to create jobs, advance clean air and reduce our dependence on foreign oil, we need look no further than the vast domestic natural gas supplies right below our feet. Natural gas is found in abundance throughout our nation, and it is underutilized for clean power generation. This means [...]

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Nat Gas… Abundance… Right here at home


Natural gas has the power to “rock the world,” according to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal. We’ve got more of it right here in America than Saudi Arabia has oil – enough to literally power our nation for generations. Our country’s vast domestic abundance of this clean energy source is the topic [...]

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Ok, I Know It Has Been Awhile….


There are all kind of excuses for not having had a post here for quite a while. I could blame it on my new job, which would be true. Or, I could blame in on not being able to figure out how to advance the bandwidth capabilities of the blog, which would also be true. [...]

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What’s Hot in 2010


Natural gas moved to the top of the hot list for 2010 today on CNBC’s Mad Money.  Jim Cramer named the clean, affordable, and efficient energy source as one of his top 10 investment themes in the New Year, featuring a conversation with Anadarko CEO Jim Hackett.  Cramer notes that natural gas has “a tremendous [...]

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