Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, May 5, 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, May 12, 1923. Read our 100-year old news items on the subjects of a giant gas gusher, the best fuel open Earth, a big well coming soon, a witty debate with NIMBYs and a stove for the mountains?
New Yorkers Celebrate Natural Gas Development
Natural gas is now being banned in New York. It’s amazing how things have changed for the worse for New Yorkers isn’t it?
12 May 1923, Sat The Buffalo Enqor the worse uirer (Buffalo, New York) Newspapers.com
You can blame it on ignorant city voters who have no clue how their food and energy is made and they now dominate the Empress State under Governor Kathy Hochul.
Well, Yes It Is…Yes It Is!
The “Best Fuel on Earth” indeed. That’s natural gas.
12 May 1923, Sat Okmulgee Daily Times (Okmulgee, Oklahoma) Newspapers.com
We need more advertising just like this.
A Big Well Any Day Now!
The wildcatter type enthusiasm of this advertisement is also appealing but no one would dare be so bold today lest the SEC come after them.
12 May 1923, Sat The Vancouver Sun (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) Newspapers.com
Empire Oil and Natural Gas Company Limited was a Canadian outfit, of course, so it’s even more unlikely this would be permitted today there.
New York NIMBYs Get Their Start!
A century ago, despite the enthusiasm for gushers noted above, there were, nonetheless, NIMBYs already getting their start in Buffalo.
12 May 1923, Sat Buffalo Morning Express (Buffalo, New York) Newspapers.com
And, it grew from there until today as natural gas is being banned in New York.
An Andes Gas Range…Is It A Stove for the Mountains?
The news 100 years ago was filled with stylish natural gas range advertisements but this one has an unusual name suggesting a mountain range.
12 May 1923, Sat Press and Sun-Bulletin (Binghamton, New York) Newspapers.com
There is an Andes, New York, of course, but one doubts the stove is named after that little rural town in Delaware County.
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