Kelly's Campaign

I have been driving for ten years now and I have noticed (and felt) how gas prices have increased through all those years. I remember loading p500 (about 12USD) and that would last me the whole week already. Now, you load four times as much and it would still not be enough for seven days. There is really something about the supply and demand that affects these changes. We all know about the wars but the supply is also already starting to dwindle. Some years back, the use of natural gas have been discussed, that it is about time we use our natural resources and not have to depend on inorganic power supplies.

Just last week, we went to a barbeque party at a friend’s house. Both our friend and his wife are geologists and our conversation drifted to this issue (geek alert, LOL) – that we all need to explore alternative gas supplies because we clearly have other options. Apparently in the US, they have what they call marcellus gas. The natural gas is from the Marcellus Shale, which is a unit of sedimentary rock found in the eastern part of North America, around New York, Pennsylvania and extending throughout the major part of the Appalachian Basin. Some geologists consider this shale to possibly supply a large amount of natural gas. The Marcellus Shale is also thought to become the major contributor of natural gas in the whole United States soon. They said this because the shale have an estimated content of more than 500 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

Since the demand and supply is surely increasing for such natural gas, there are websites like the one created by the Unconventional Oil and Gas Center which provide online tools to help other companies tap these natural resources.

Isn’t it nice to know that we have other options?

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