U.S. should stop selling off its needed natural gas

…Anyway, while the cost of natural gas has nearly tripled during the past five years, exports of U.S. natural gas to Canada have risen 155 percent. In fact, 38 percent of all piped U.S. gas goes to Canada. Another 33 percent is pipelined to three Michigan hamlets on rivers across from Ontario. Mexico does not receive quite as much as Canada.

Responsibility must lie in NAFTA and free trade. For by shipping our life-preserving gas out of the country during an energy crisis


Thus, all the compassionate chatter of politicians worrying about how the poor will be able to survive the winter are rather shameful as they realize that their laws have contributed to the misery.

But we import much crude oil from Canada, some will argue. True, but the Canadians at present have no use for their excess oil. The United States has a critical need for the natural gas it ships out of the country.

Schenectady Gazette