Platts Gas Daily, March 10, 2008.

Small Rockies gas producer files for bankruptcy PRB Energy, “Our revenue stream has also been negatively impacted through the first nine months of the year as a result of downward pressure on our realized natural gas sales prices stemming from regional constraints in moving and selling our natural gas production in higher-demand markets.” 

Platts Gas Daily, March 3 2006

“So let me get this straight: The canadians drill up our natural gas in Lake Erie and off the coast of Maine and sell it to us, and the Cubans drill for oil and gas hundreds of miles closer to Florida than we do?” the Pennsylvania Republican [John Peterson, U.S. House Representative] said. “And we wonder why U.S. consumers and small businesses pay the highest natural gas prices in the world.”

October 2005, Wyoming State Revenue Forecast, 2006-2010

The magnitude of the importance of natural gas in the overall severance tax picture would be difficult to overstate. Simply put, approximately two-thirds of the state’s [Wyoming’s] mineral valuation, and therefore two-thirds of the severance taxes projected in this report, are due directly to the production of natural gas.

Source, PLATTS GAS DAILY, AUGUST 12, 2005

As U.S. gas demand rises toward an estimated 30 Tcf by 2020 and the industry spends billions of dollars to keep up, pipelines with access to mature production basins in Oklahoma, West Texas and the Gulf Coast “may not be viewed as favorably as pipelines with access to the Rocky Mountain region, which has experienced production growth in recent years,” S&P said in a report, “Key Rating Factors for U.S. Natural Gas Pipelines.”

PLATTS GAS DAILY, MONDAY, JUNE 20, 2005

The next 20 years will hold myriad challenges for energy companies seeking to develop new gas and oil reserves, including access limitations, a dwindling workforce and a shortage of investment dollars, industry executives said last week at The Economist’s Oil & Gas Roundtable in Houston. “We are without a doubt living in an energy-constrained world,” proclaimed Kathleen Sendall, Petro-Canada’s senior vice president for North Americas gas. “Today’s energy companies are running flat out to meet demand.” Robert Daniels, Anadarko Petroleum’s senior vice president of exploration and production, agreed with Sendall and blamed the tight supply/demand balance on “25 years of underinvestment [that] have left us in a supply crunch.”

By Thomas Homer-Dixon and S. Julio Friedmann, The New York Times
Saturday, March 26, 2005

Relief isn't likely to come anytime soon from drilling elsewhere: Oil companies spent $8 billion on exploration in 2003, but discovered only $4 billion of commercially useful oil.

Nuclear Power? A source that produces no greenhouse emissions. To meet the expected growth in total American energy demand over the next 50 years would require building 1,200 new nuclear power plants in addition to the current 104 - or one plant every two weeks until 2050.

Solar power? To satisfy its current electricity demand using today's technology, the United States would need 10 billion square meters of photovoltaic panels; this would cost $5 trillion, or nearly half the country's annual gross domestic product.

Hydrogen? To replace just America's surface transportation with cars and trucks running on fuel cells powered by hydrogen, America would have to produce 230,000 tons of the gas - or enough to fill 13,000 Hindenburg dirigibles - every day.