{"id":12581,"date":"2013-01-25T10:44:45","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T16:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=12581"},"modified":"2013-01-25T10:44:45","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T16:44:45","slug":"oklahoma-and-the-impending-war-on-natural-gas-exports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/01\/25\/oklahoma-and-the-impending-war-on-natural-gas-exports\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma and the Impending War on Natural Gas Exports"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12585\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ctcaldwell\/5399272315\/sizes\/m\/in\/photostream\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12585\" title=\"Natural Gas Flare\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/01\/nat-gas-flare.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/01\/nat-gas-flare.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/01\/nat-gas-flare-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/01\/nat-gas-flare-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Raw Processor \/ Flickr<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<\/div><p>Low natural gas prices <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/01\/25\/three-ways-low-natural-gas-prices-are-affecting-oklahomas-economy\/\">aren\u2019t good for business<\/a> in big-energy states like Oklahoma, so producers and politicians are doing what they can to boost consumption.<\/p><p>This means promoting new technologies \u2014 like Gov. Mary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/joannmuller\/2012\/07\/16\/governors-press-detroit-to-make-natural-gas-vehicles\/\">Fallin&#8217;s push for more natural-gas vehicles<\/a> \u2014 and expanding into new markets. <em>The Oklahoman<\/em>\u2019s Adam Wilmoth <a href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/natural-gas-export-plans-threaten-historic-alliances\/article\/3748811?custom_click=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+newsok%2Fbusiness+%28NewsOK.com+RSS+-+business%29\">sees a fight on the horizon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the more controversial strategies to increase natural gas consumption is the effort to build liquefied natural gas export terminals to send the fuel to Europe and Asia, where it is selling for up to five times as much as here at home.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>The natural gas industry says exporting LNG will have a \u201cminimal effect\u201d on U.S. prices. But big natural gas consumers \u2014 namely chemical and manufacturing giants \u2014 disagree.<\/p><p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dow has said repeatedly over the past two years that \u201cindiscriminately\u201d exporting natural gas could drive up fuel costs and threaten the industry&#8217;s planned expansion and construction projects. Dow last month joined with three other chemical companies, aluminum producer Alcoa Inc., steel producer Nucor Corp. and the American Public Gas Association to create a group called America&#8217;s Energy Advantage to challenge exports.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>As our partners at StateImpact Texas report, <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2013\/01\/14\/exporting-lng-raises-fears-and-hopes-on-the-texas-coast\/\">low natural gas prices have been good to industry<\/a>.\u00a0Petrochemical\u00a0plants have been saving on cheap gas and expanding operations.<\/p><p>That means they&#8217;re able to make cheaper products, like plastic, and better compete against firms in Europe and Asia &#8220;where natural gas is far more expensive,&#8221; Dave Fehling reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Low natural gas prices aren\u2019t good for business in big-energy states like Oklahoma, so producers and politicians are doing what they can to boost consumption.This means promoting new technologies \u2014 like Gov. Mary Fallin&#8217;s push for more natural-gas vehicles \u2014 and expanding into new markets. The Oklahoman\u2019s Adam Wilmoth sees a fight on the horizon: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":12585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[490],"tags":[238,229],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12588,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12581\/revisions\/12588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}