H. Josef Hebert

…as growing demand for natural gas outstrips North America’s conventional supplies, many experts view imports of LNG as the only way to head off decades of soaring prices for businesses and the tens of millions of households that rely on the fuel for heat and electricity.

Amid soaring crude oil prices, gasoline costs have been dropping. But don’t expect that to last, economists say

“We simply do not yet have the economic solutions or technologies that would permit us to meet future energy demands without carbon emissions growth,” Exxon Mobil chairman Lee R. Raymond said.