Comments, August 2004

Anticipation that natural gas may one day replace oil as the world’s primary energy source continues to grow. Global gas consumption will more than double over the next 3 decades, surpassing coal as the number two energy source and possibly overtaking oil’s share in many industrialized countries, predicts a new joint study by the James A. Baker III Inst. for Public Policy at Rice U. and the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development at Stanford U. The study, titled The Geopolitics of Natural Gas, examines the geopolitical implications of this transition in the world’s fuel supply.

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