During President Jimmy Carter's term, Tulis recalls, natural gas prices were inflated because the Administration predicted severe shortages and even mandated that gas be restricted to home heating and cooking.
Picking up on the discussion of gas prices from yesterday, is it fair for the American voter or the American public to blame any President -- in this case, this President and his administration -- when gas prices start going up so high?
In the long run, if the projections of the US Energy Information Administration are correct and gas fired generation continues to grow rapidly, then there is little question the market rules need to be modified to assure reliability and spur more pipeline capacity and flexibility.
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While the International Air Transport Administration also considers compressed gas cylinders hazardous in general, the body approves of the avalanche-specific canisters for either checked or carry-on luggage, thereby making the US the only country in the world to prohibit them. (Passengers outside the US are, however, required to inform the airline before their flight that they will be transporting the system).
And if unshackled by the Obama Administration, this oil and gas resurgence could expand to kick-start the entire economy.
And then there any number of other matters, including the India nuclear power deal and a bill making it easier for the administration to grant oil and gas leases.
The Attorney General today said that the administration's oil and gas working group was going to be meeting this week to talk about high -- the rise in gas prices as it investigates possible manipulation, speculation in the energy markets.
But China likely has even more shale gas potential than the U.S., with the U.S. Energy Information Administration figuring on 1, 250 trillion cubic feet of recoverable shale gas in China.
Although not generally acknowledged, oil, gas and renewables have benefited greatly under this Administration and will continue to do so in the next four years.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration says increased use of natural gas has come at the expense of coal, which tends to emit significantly more carbon dioxide than natural gas.
And it stands to reason that if the Obama Administration dropped its hostility to oil and gas energy, even more jobs would be created as the industry invested to exploit other areas with new technology and production methods.
Is the administration open to allowing more exports of natural gas to Japan?
Coal now supplies about 40 percent of the electricity here while natural gas comprises about 30 percent, says the Energy Information Administration.
Instead, the Obama administration has embraced environmentally responsible production of natural gas as a relatively painless way to meet both energy and environmental goals.
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The Bush administration says Kyoto's mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions, notably carbon dioxide, would cripple the economy.
In fact, the Obama Administration desperately tried and failed to increase oil and gas prices via cap and trade last year.
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In response, the administration of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso decided to promote gas-fired power plants as a way of diversifying out of the crisis.
Despite all the talk from the president, his administration will still provide substantial aid to oil and gas companies, as well as other fossil fuels.
We have a supply of natural gas that can last nearly one hundred years, and my Administration will take every possible action to safely develop this energy.
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But Donohue, who leads an organization that has opposed the Obama administration on issues from health care reform to greenhouse gas regulation, is hinting that this icy relationship may be thawing.
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The one person who deserves no credit for this boom is Barack Obama. in fact, this Administration has bent over backwards to make oil and gas production and exploration as difficult as possible.
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In some places, the practice has been blamed for air pollution and gas leaks that have ruined well water, but the Obama administration and many state regulators say the practice is safe when done properly.
That is why my Administration continues to open millions of acres for oil and gas exploration.
However, few have been paying attention to the facts as the partisans have worked overtime to paint the Obama administration as being anti-oil and anti-natural gas.
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He talked about how his administration is pursuing new domestic energy sources, expanding oil and gas production, and reducing our overall reliance on oil through development of renewable energy.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration is predicting it, and other unconventional forms of natural gas, could rise from 15 percent today to become 57 percent of all such production by 2030.
Howarth said other federal climate scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have published recent studies documenting massive methane leaks from natural gas operations in Colorado and other Western states.
Those industries have powerful protectors in both parties in Congress who will fight any additional regulations handed down by the administration that could contribute to Americans paying more for electricity and gas at the pump.
Cuomo administration officials said that the extent of New York's gas shortage was greater than New Jersey's and that the state waited for local officials and city leaders to mutually agree before deciding on rationing.
The administration also wants to disqualify U.S. oil and gas companies from using a deduction authorized by the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 that taxes domestic manufacturers in a manner consistent with the way foreign competitors are taxed.
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