"....You can liquefy gas and transport it, but that's expensive and really isn't going to contribute enough to make any significant difference. It can be profitable...but it's not really a panacea."

Dr. Colin Campbell, Petroleum Geologist, December 2002

The world's oil reserves are up to 80 percent less than predicted, a team from Sweden's University of Uppsala says...Oil production levels will hit their maximum soon after 2010 with gas supplies peaking not long afterwards....

CNN, October 2003


"There are many problems with the [Calpine] project and with the increasing dependence of our area and of the entire United States on natural gas...Natural gas is a fossil fuel, so its supply is inherently limited...Recent data indicates that natural gas production in North America has now reached its all-time peak in spite of greatly increased drilling...That is why there are plans, such as Calpine's, to import an increasing share of our natural gas as Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)--to try to make up for the shortfall.

"For now, there are abundant supplies of natural gas throughout the world. In approximately 20 years global natural gas production will begin a permanent decline. Importing natural gas will only defer our long-term energy supply problems, not solve them.

"...Our increasing dependence on imported oil is a major factor in our involvement in wars in the Middle East and in Columbia. Becoming dependent on imported LNG will only make a bad situation worse.

"I believe the way to solve our energy problems is not to make ourselves increasingly dependent on dwindling supplies of imported fossil fuels, but instead to develop technology to use energy much more efficiently and to get an increasing share of our energy from local renewable sources such as solar, wind and biomass."

Michael Winkler, Energy Research Engineer, October 2003