Natural gas (methane) is very common here in the USA but the infrastructure
isn't in place to deliver it outside the cities and major towns.
People here don't usually get what they want...they get what the corporate
masters let 'trickle down' to them.
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On 5/13/08 2:22 AM, "Andrew Fildes" <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Many homes around this country used fuel oil of some description
> until about 20-30 years ago when it got too expensive. Although we
> are thin on the ground and the ground is large, mains gas (methane)
> is generally available - because there was no real choice. Bottled
> gas was relatively common around here but that has died away with the
> spread of natural gas - by popular demand. Remote areas have LPG tanks.
> The point I'm making is that when oil was cheap, people used it. When
> it got expensive, in the early 1970's, people demanded a cheaper
> alternative and got it. Some went to electricity but that got
> expensive on them as well. I suspect that there is no shortage of
> natural gas in N. America - until now there's been little incentive
> to use anything but oil. Time to change.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 13/05/2008, at 4:03 PM, Chris Crawford wrote:
>
>> In many parts of the USA, especially rural areas, natural gas for home
>> heating is not available. The infrastructure for that has been
>> built in most
>> cities and towns but many areas outside the urban areas simply
>> don't have
>> the pipes running to them. Those people use heating oil, Kerosene, or
>> Propane. Which they use seems to depend on the area they live,
>> different
>> parts of the country seem to run on different fuels from what I've
>> seen.
>> Here in Indiana, propane is commonly used in rural areas and the
>> houses all
>> have an enormous propane tank next to the house that is filled once
>> or twice
>> a year.
>>
>> Many newer houses use electricity instead of burning gas or oil for
>> heat,
>> and right now that is a lot cheaper than petroleum where I live (our
>> electricity comes from a nuclear plant primarily, with some coming
>> from a
>> coal-burning plant and coal is cheap and plentiful if not good for the
>> environment).
>
>
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