No, Marc, it won't.
How could natural gas intended for export affect customers here, except to push prices upward?
STOP the exporting of our energy resources -- we're going to need them RIGHT HERE. If not now, someday in the future.
That natural gas should be flowing to communities that need it, in the northern areas and into New England where prices are highest.
NOT to Europe, or China, or wherever...
Okay, let me 'splain this to you (and anyone else).
A significant portion of the Natural Gas Production is a by product of oil production. Methane is the dominant component of raw wellhead gas, but included in that mix in the wellhead gas are ethane, propane, isoButane, Normal Butanee, and a host of other, longer chain and more complex volatile aromatics. Those heavier gases are common chemical feedstocks or fuels.
When there is no place for that wellhead gas to go (as in the pipeline is full, storage is full, and the gas processing plants are at capacity), that gas gets flared.
But the Administration has come down with some strict flaring rules, and penalties for flaring excessive amounts of gas, along with a new batch of regulations about methane emissions. Ultimately, this will affect oil production, too, as that gas is a byproduct of oil production, and you can't just produce the oil and not the gas dissolved in it.
So, stopping up the end of the supply chain that exists as a foreign market for the most common component of wellhead gas puts a choke point in the line that will back up to the wellhead eventually. That is their ultimate goal, and will result in higher prices for everything from motor fuels to asphalt, plastics, and so much more. How long that ripple will take to get back to the wellhead is anyone's guess, but it will.
All the time they are trying to saddle us with electric cars that won't work in a large part of the lower 48.
As for New England, the State of New York declared a moratorium on pipelines which has made transshipment of a common heating fuel in the midwest only available by rail or truck.
Without a reliable supply of the fuel in bulk, Natural Gas will not become a dominant heating fuel in the New England states, not taking precedence over fuel oil and other sources of heat.
Permitting other pipelines that supply the southern Atlantic States has been beleagured every step of the way with permitting delays, as has the construction of pipelines transiting the Alleghenies and Appalachian.
You can want it there, but the New Yorkers make getting it there problematical. As for us, up north here in the Plains, we have plenty, we produce it in ND, (over 1 trillion cubic feet last year--about 2% of production).
According to the EIA, the United States used 32.31 trillion cubic feet of Natural Gas last year, but produced 34.57 trillion cubic feet. Either we flare the excess or sell it, and the European Market is wide open since the Nordstream II pipeline got hit, and the Baltic Connector pipeline.
