|
Social Articles
|
|
Fuel Prices at the Pump: That is not the problem, Natural Gas Prices are high too
By Lance Winslow
Id Badge Accessories An id badge is worn so that staff and visitors can be accounted for within a building. Usually permanent members of staff have their own id badges that they will bring to work with them in the morning. Visitors to the building will report to the reception area where they can be issued with temporary id badges. New badges can be printed off on an id card printer and a host of Id Badge Accessories will accompany the printer. Holders and clips are just a couple of examples of the type of accessories that will be used. Packages can be bought that include not only the printer but all of the Id Badge Accessories that will be required to make up batches of new id badges. This can include a digital camera for taking facial images which can then be printed directly onto the card section of the badge. When you consider how many stafff members might work within a large organisation you can see how important it is to keep a good stock of the Id Badge Accessories. From lanyards to badge reels and even necklaces, there`re always plenty of accessories that can be chosen for the id badges. Wedding Photographer Windsor I`m not sure that I could be a professional wedding photographer. The sheer weight of expectation that is placed upon their shoulders would be enough to put me off. That, coupled to the fact that I haven`t got the creative talent to be able to capture a series of special images; would hinder my chances of taking up this profession. I think wedding photographers earn every single penny due to their undoubted talents. Recently I was looking online at the work of a Wedding Photographer Windsor and being wowed by what I saw. They truly had captured some stunningly beautiful imagery and you could sense the happiness and raw emotion that was experienced on each wedding shoot. If I was getting married in the South West I`d certainly be looking to book the services of the Wedding Photographer Windsor . Brides would be left with breathtaking pictures if they hired the services of this photographic expert. A wedding day is a once in a lifetime experience for many happy couples and as they get older they`ll want to look back on this day from time to time. Pouring over images that were captured by the Wedding Photographer Windsor it will almost feel as if the day has begun once again.
This brings me to the next fuel to be discussed; ?Natural Gas.? We use Natural Gas for heating and running appliances at home. Industries use Natural Gas to help the environment. Many companies switched to Natural Gas in the last decade due to tax breaks given by government agencies. Now it appears there will be a huge price spike due to supply shortages. Which will cause many business failures in industries whose jobs have for the most part already left the country due to union demands, over regulations, costs and WTO and NAFTA deals. Why is there a shortage of Natural Gas? We have been converting to cleaner burning fuels and there is plenty of Natural Gas in the world. Unfortunately drilling has been hampered due to Environmental and Sierra Club lawsuits, such as the one off the New England coast, which stated that the drilling, which would only last a month or so might hurt the extremely low frequencies that dolphins and whales use to communicate. Then there have been hundreds of lawsuits filed against offshore oil drilling, natural gas pipelines. Much has been discussed about the need for hydrogen economy and it?s desirable attributes for the environment. All well and good, but right now we have issues with fuel and oil which are critical with regards to the reserves available and the amount at any one time in the pipeline, both actually and figuratively. Hydrogen is a wonderful future choice, but only through incremental change. Many say ethanol is the answer. Maybe but lets not forget that it takes water to grow corn and many of the areas where corn grows well have gone through some rather harsh drought times lately. If we subsidize farmers to grow corn, use up all the water and then the price of the ethanol is close to that of gasoline then why not use the same money to lower the taxes placed on gasoline now? It is the same money and we get some of the water back and still have something to eat, make plastics out of and export. There needs to be some clear headed thinking about these issues and all too often it is political and not reality based. It is going to require some non-linear thinking and deep thought. Renewable energy is a fine ?Buzz word? but it should not be applied to every thing that comes along. There are many issues to the flow of energy. Because the oil in the ground and the natural gas is sitting there and it is free, it makes sense to use it. It only needs to be picked up refined and transported. These other technologies also need to be refined and transported. And if the refining process puts pollution and green house gases in the atmosphere, then where have we really saved. It has to work all the way around in the environmental circle and still be produced for the same price point, otherwise it is defeating the purpose it intended and therefore it is not reality based. A very skeptical eye needs to be watching these movements and if it makes sense, move it forward incrementally. Today there is no shortage of oil or natural gas whatsoever on this planet. We have certainly come along way since the old stories of the Permian Basin originals. If you have studied some of the incredible stories and histories of the Texas Wild Cat?ers, then you can see what an incredible distance we have really come in keeping up with the World?s thirst for oil and the refined products such as Jet Fuel, Diesel and Gasoline and ancillary chemicals left over during the refining process. The flow of fuel is a key to the Health of the Nation. 
|
