Natural gas generates most of our electricity and heats a lot of our homes. The graph clearly explains why we have a huge problem right at the time we should be coming online with our own power and why we will probably have to buy imported LNG from some third world country. The following study commissioned by Chugach Electric Association, Enstar, and Municipal Light and Power from Petroleum Resources of Alaska is pretty clear.http://www.akrdc.org/membership/events/special/luncheons/prareport.PDF
The following link is the study released by DNR that comes to the same conclusions:
http://www.dog.dnr.state.ak.us/oil/programs/resource_evaluation/res_eval_pub/Cook%20Inlet%20Reserves_DNR.pdf
The following link is another independent study on gas by Commonwealth North:
http://www.commonwealthnorth.org/documents_cwnorth/Energy%20for%20a%20Sustainable%20Alaska,%20the%20Railbelt%20Predicament.pdf
