Natural Gas wins. Natural Gas is the clear winner in the transition to a Renewable Energy Economy. Natural Gas is important to both Power Generating Plants and Transportation for well into the foreseeable future. Natural Gas’ innate chemical formulation of primarily Methane (CH4) and zero Carbon Dioxide (CO2) give it the great attribute as a bridge fuel to a Carbon Zero Economy. Methane (CH4), also a Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission, remains in the atmosphere for mere months compared to hundreds of years for Carbon Dioxide (CO2). It is impossible to deny that Natural Gas is key to world economy of the next 100 years.

Natural Gas is also plentiful on every continent in the world. New deposits of Natural Gas are found monthly in North America. Extraction of Natural Gas from plentiful; Canadian shale deposits greatly increase the long term supply of clean Natural Gas well into the next century.

The enormous increase in the market ready supply of Natural Gas in the last decade has vastly decreased its cost to consumers. Natural Gas has always been cheaper than Petroleum and Coal. Natural Gas is easier to extract from underground than Coal and Petroleum, does not require expensive refining or reformulation and requires very little Air Quality pollution control technology when compared to Coal or Petroleum.

In fact, Natural Gas is expected to remain at least $1 below the cost of Petroleum for years to come. The price of Petroleum is more likely to increase over the next several years than decrease or even stabilize around $4 per gallon. In fact many analysts see $5 to $6 a gallon gasoline in the near future. Natural Gas is cheap to extract, cheap to process, cheap to distribute, cheap to use and is very clean on both Criteria and Greenhouse Gas pollutants.

Many states around the country have locally deregulated their Electric Utilities. This allows consumers to purchase the Electric Generating Fuel Source from any supplier the Local Distribution Company or Gatekeeper uses. As more and more consumers have become educated about Carbon pollution, many have switched to new Natural Gas Power Plants as their Electricity Generating power source

While many states now have a Renewable Fuel mandate to increase the market share of Renewable Energy the governments have often failed in mandating which fuel or fuel type should be the market winner. Renewable Energy is expensive, very expensive.

Wind and Solar power will never be able to compete in the energy market without government mandates to use more Renewable Energy. The governments failed in the past to mandate Alternative Fuel types for Transportation. It is just as unlikely that the mandates for utilities to purchase Renewable Energy will remain in place. Once consumers realize how much more expensive Renewable Energy is the mandates on utilities will be relaxed.

So Natural Gas wins as an electricity power generating source, as a home heating energy source and as a transportation fuel, especially trucks, buses, locomotives and vessels. Natural Gas is clean, cheap and domestic.