Natural gas

Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good is a common phrase in use today and is appropriate when describing the problem of climate change. Changing the transportation industry over to natural gas will reduce CO2 emissions by 25%. Add to that power plants and you have another 10% reduction. This is already being done in various parts of the world but its importance is not recognized by the climate change scientists because it is not moving away from fossil fuels and that is their ultimate goal, (the perfect). In addition this will be handled by the petroleum industry and there are no kickbacks to politicians. There will be fewer grants given to researchers to write about the problems of climate change. The health benefits would be significant especially in places like India and China not to mention the potential for sales of US produced natural gas. These same sales opportunities are present in the European market. Growth in the solar and wind industries could continue but like Obama said: In his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, and again today at a UPS facility in Las Vegas, President Obama said that the country needs an “all-out, all of the above strategy that develops every available source of American energy—a strategy that’s cleaner, cheaper, and full of new jobs.”