Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, November 4, 1922!
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. Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, October 21, 1922. Read our 100-year old news items on the subjects of celebrating natural gas in Canada, using it without wasting it in Louisiana, gushers in Pennsylvania and Caspian eternal fires.
Celebrate It! For the Good of the Community!
What a great message on natural gas from our friends to the north. And, nothing has changed in the intervening century regarding the good it does for all of us!
04 Nov 1922, Sat Calgary Herald (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) Newspapers.com
Yes, let’s recognize natural gas for the good it has brought communities for the last 100 years and remember there’s no reason it can’t continue for another 100 years.
And, If We Want It for the Future, Don’t Waste It Today!
A hundred years ago no one understood just how much natural gas there really was and, today, few understand how much still remains to be explored and developed.
04 Nov 1922, Sat The Times (Shreveport, Louisiana) Newspapers.com
We know today, of course, the amount of natural gas available is more a function of economics than physical limits. That is to say reserves rise and fall with price because the higher the the price, the more worthwhile it is to develop the mineral resources of which there is absolutely no shortage. That’s why we will never run out of the stuff. There will always be some left at some price.
Greene County Gusher Yields Greed!
Sadly, there’s nothing like success to bring out the greed in all of us, is there?
04 Nov 1922, Sat The Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com
Today, of course, it’s the government that is more likely to claim your share of the mineral rights, especially if you live in Upstate New York State or the Delaware River Basin.
And, Fracking Didn’t Cause It!
Calling Josh Fox and all Gasland fans:
Somehow the facts never grow old when it comes natural gas and how Josh Fox played so many with a narrative only intended to further his own career.
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