The above is an
actual headline from the Washington Post today. First,
I told you so – see my column, Natural
Gas Flip Flop. From the Post here’s some of the fear
provoked by cheap abundant natural gas:

Rachel
Cleetus, a senior climate economist at the Union of Concerned
Scientists, said that “the problem is [natural gas] can take
over the entire pie and crowd out renewables. Part of the reason
this is happening is there’s a boom and there’s a sense that
natural gas resources will be around forever.”

…the economic issue is disruptive, too. The rush to produce
shale gas “is forcing all of us to seriously address what it means
for us,” said Ralph
Izzo, chief executive of Public Service Enterprise Group
(PSEG), a New Jersey-based utility that relies on nuclear energy
for half of its power supply. Izzo said it would mean “the delay of
the nuclear renaissance for years to come.”

Can an energy source be all that bad if it scares the two most
heavily subsidized sectors of the electric power generation
industry?