While that's not clear, it is clear that the economics of energy efficiency in residential construction have changed, probably permanently. And don't think the code crowd hasn't noticed. And because we're short on spare electric generating plants, we're building a lot more now than in recent times. New power plants will be the biggest new source of natural gas demand. Homebuyers love gas.
Industry uses half our gas.
Farmers use fertilizer made from gas. Fertilizer grows the corn to feed the beef that MacDonald's served for lunch today. So demand will continue to grow. Pipes and caves The several hundred-thousand miles of natural gas pipelines nationwide carry gas from the wellhead to your water heater. During the heating season, wells can't produce gas fast enough to meet the demand, so we draw gas from large underground storage caverns.