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...rigs operating in the U.S. has fallen well over 50% in the past year, according to EIA data. Because a given well's output decreases over time, producers need to drill new wells continually to keep up production. Thus, the falling rig count raises concern about the longer-term-supply outlook...
Producers who cannot sell or store their gas will have limited options: cap their wells, which could be bad for them in the long term; give gas away for free, which has happened before when producers did not want to halt production; or flare it - burn it off into the atmosphere. With production decreasing because of low price incentives and a great deal of gas likely being lost from capping wells and flaring gas, the oversupply will not last, and the price will be pushed higher by supply and demand fundamentals. The natural gas futures traded on the New York...
...great pricing inefficiency arises because this natural gas speculator is following a predefined plan - and the plan is publicly known. Plus, it's a foolish one. A fund that invests in long-term natural gas prices is taking needless risk in placing significant money in the short-term futures market...
...course, critics are right that the program will probably drive up the price of used cars for poor people who need them and will have only a marginal effect on the long-term prospects of the auto industry. Subsidies don't so much increase demand as kidnap it, inspire people to take the money they were saving for a new fridge and apply it to a pickup instead. As for the environmental benefit, the new fleet will save about 160 million gal. of gasoline a year--which sounds awfully good, except that we use 378 million...
...against an incumbent President, under very, very difficult circumstances," he prickles when asked about it. He took the loss hard. He skulked around the Senate for months, casting wary eyes on his colleagues and reporters alike. Friends say he talked in 2005 about leaving the Senate when his fourth term came to an end in 2008. Not until 2006 did he firmly declare he would seek a fifth term...