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Finishline42

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7. What happens if
Wed Aug 26, 2020, 10:50 PM
Aug 2020

Democrats win in Nov?

Does that change what gets injected into the fracked wells to keep them producing?

Bankruptcy is rampant in the Nat Gas drilling industry, who's going to loan them money in clearly an unsustainable industry?

My utility bill has a fuel adjustment component - what happens if nat gas goes up 50%?

As long as I can remember oil has had a boom bust cycle. Times when you get change back from a $20 when you fill up your Prius. Others when you need a $100 bill to get change back to fill up an SUV.

We don't see it so much with Nat Gas, few people buy it directly, it's mostly an indirect cost. But if we see a major increase in the cost it changes a lot of the cost factors in the electric utility industry. It will spur investment into wind and solar and the more that utilities get power from wind and solar the more expensive it gets to run nat gas plants.

You keep talking about a high energy industrial economy. I don't think there's a difference between the electricity produced from a nat gas power plant and a windfarm with the exception a windfarm needs for the wind to be blowing. Do you see a something else?

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