Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, August 18, 1923
Tom Shepstone
Shepstone Management Company, Inc.
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Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today.
It’s fun and illuminating to look back 100 years ago at what was happening with natural gas. It’s also eye opening, given all we’ve learned over the last century. There is, indeed, little new under the sun, as our stories repeatedly demonstrate.
There is, indeed, little new under the sun, as our stories repeatedly demonstrate. Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, August 18, 1923. Read our 100-year old news items on housing values with natural gas, swimming with natural gas, Standard Oil, what 2¢ buys with natural gas and “The Romance” of natural gas.
Has the House Natural Gas?
A good question that remains relevant today:
18 Aug 1923, Sat The Edmonton Bulletin (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) Newspapers.com
Indeed, the question will be ever more important as the climate cartel tries to deny all new homeowners access to natural gas. The value of natural gas heated homes will rise proportionate to the cartel’s efforts.
Let’s Swim!
Pierre, South Dakota, was hardly a place for year-round swimming but natural gas made it possible!
18 Aug 1923, Sat The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, California) Newspapers.com
Yet, again, the phrase “What can’t natural gas do?”comes to mind.
Those Damned Rockefellers!
A century later, the Rockefeller family is now the enemy of oil and natural gas development here at home, but they’ve been only too happy to be involved in the industry in China while advancing climate schemes.
18 Aug 1923, Sat Collyer’s Eye (Chicago, Illinois) Newspapers.com
Some things never change, do they?
What Two Cents Will Do with Natural Gas!
Nice ad from Peoples Natural Gas:
18 Aug 1923, Sat The Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com
The arguments cannot be broken, can they?
“The Romance of the Gas Industry”
This is the great title of an interesting 203-page book about the natural gas industry published in 1922 that was briefly summarized in the following article from an Australian newspaper:
The full book is available to read on-line here for free. Hard copy reprints and second-hand copies are available from multiple sources and it’s illustrated.
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