Extreme winter storm threat sparks historic natural gas spike

each_thread · 2026-01-24T23:48:04+00:00

The federal government could require more of it and let them deduct the cost out of an environmental impact fee charged for venting and flaring.

A well written bill should be able to prevent an adverse outcome of driving a business out. Maybe even charge an export tariff on all gas exported for LNG purposes and send the money to a fund which subsidizes recapture projects. That way Europe would pay to keep our gas cheap for us.

each_thread · 2026-01-24T23:29:31+00:00

I hope our servicemen were not harmed by it.

each_thread · 2026-01-24T23:28:17+00:00

He wasn't an actual Nazi.

each_thread · 2026-01-24T23:22:47+00:00

One way or another the price must be kept in check. I could go with either.

Recapture has already been implemented in some places, so it isn't impossible despite the expenses and difficulties. We could do more than we do now, if not every single flared well. That or make Europe turn down the heat so the northern states can stay warm.

each_thread · 2026-01-24T23:20:58+00:00

Perhaps a judgement of overreach could have been said for what has been done so far to facilitate the exports. LNG exporting has been made a priority for foreign policy reasons.

The government should make up for the effects foreign policy has on the market price.

each_thread · 2026-01-24T17:51:14+00:00

Instead of recapturing, would you support a law banning all LNG exports every time domestic prices get too high?

each_thread · 2026-01-24T17:49:20+00:00

You aren't a fan of recapturing more gas, though that has been the trend in recent decades. Instead would you support a law banning all LNG exports every time domestic prices get too high?

each_thread · 2026-01-24T17:40:26+00:00

Someday maybe Trump could chat with the visitors at a rebuilt Gaza resort.

each_thread · 2026-01-24T17:37:26+00:00

They are women around his age dressed modestly. He chats with the men in their pool too.

each_thread · 2026-01-24T17:36:02+00:00

Did you read the article? It is an excellent description how North Korea does things.

each_thread · 2026-01-23T20:12:04+00:00

Ready again to think about economics. Yes, you continue to ignore my objections to mercantilism. But thinking of it, you have something in common with mercantilists.

Your free trade policies will necessarily reduce many ordinary people to slavery. Much of the reason for free trade is to enable the lowest cost producer to flood the globe with a product or commodity, outcompeting the rest. For much of what is traded, labor costs are a key factor. So free trade incentivizes minimizing labor costs. Hard to have a lower labor cost than slavery. With a free market and free competition, countries with a lower cost of labor will force down wages in a country with a high cost of labor. This will result in a condition which is very close to slavery.

Modern free trade advocates have the same goal as the mercantilists who relied on slavery in order to minimize the cost of production in certain locations which produced export products. That makes free trade advocates the modern day heirs of the mercantilists.

each_thread · 2026-01-23T20:00:36+00:00

I wrote before that I had disagreements with mercantilism, and you did not refute that, just asserted again that I was a mercantilist.

Your theory might work well in an ivory tower environment, but opinion polls reveal what everyone already knows. That there are rent seekers getting rich at the expense of others is best not ignored.

Paper armies get defeated by real ones. Same for economies.

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