Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, June 9, 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.
I thought it might be fun and illuminating to look back 100 years ago at what was happening with natural gas. It is 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, June 9, 1923. Read our 100-year old news items on the subjects of “The Cheapest Fuel,” $100 Opportunities, Cost vs. Value, a Montana Boom and New Brunswick Investigations.
The Cheapest Fuel!
Well, the headline says it all, doesn’t it?
09 Jun 1923, Sat The Democrat (Wichita, Kansas) Newspapers.com
Yes, and it’s cheaper than solar and wind as well, those sources of energy still requiring massive subsidies after years of the same.
Just $100 Buy Opportunity!
Natural gas fields plus $100 and you’re off and running!
Well opportunity does around in natural gas fields, doesn’t it?
It’s the Value, Stupid!
Another great headline highlighting the difference between cost and value when it comes to natural gas:
09 Jun 1923, Sat Calgary Herald (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) Newspapers.com
“Natural gas has no equal.” True then. True now.
Montana Booms!
Montana was on the mind of all sorts of oil and gas companies in 1923.
09 Jun 1923, Sat Ringling Independent (Ringling, Montana) Newspapers.com
Every state with oil and gases proud of it in 1923.
New Brunswick Investigates Natural Gas
Sadly, New Brunswick saw the future in 1923 but in 2023, it runs scared of expatriate fractivists.
09 Jun 1923, Sat The Winnipeg Tribune (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) Newspapers.com
Sad to think how far Western optimism has turned into Western negativism as elites have increasingly viewed themselves as global citizens and seek fortunes from that perch.
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