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Bay Area Energy Koll Circle san jose ca The price of gasoline is invited in the presidential campaign in the United States

Bay Area Energy Koll Circle san jose ca The price of gasoline is invited in the presidential campaign in the United States

The gas prices started to rise in the United States, Barack Obama penalized in the polls.

The gallon of gasoline touches again four dollars in the United States. Bay Area Energy Koll Circle san jose ca This amounts to 60 euro cents per liter , which would be a boon for European motorists , but for Americans , it is the critical threshold beyond which they feel that their purchasing power is reached dangerously - it is true that three-quarters of them take the wheel to work.

The cost of gas for Americans is invited in the presidential campaign , and it is very well exploited by the Republican candidates , including Newt Gingrich promises one gallon to $ 2.50. The popularity of Barack Obama , according to a poll , fallen below 50 % because of the price at the pump. It is a shame in a country that has never been independent in terms of fossil fuels that under Obama's term , as it does not fail to remind also , thanks to the development of oil and shale gas.
U.S. crude oil imports fell 10% in one year. And for the first time in 60 years , Bay Area Energy Koll Circle san jose ca the United States was a net exporter of fuel last year, they are also ready to export their gas.

But as the price of U.S. gas , totally disconnected from the international spot price was divided by four in four years , allowing also a relocation of the chemical industry in the United States, as the oil price remains subject to turbulence the world market and they were many , from Libya to the Iranian crisis , which keeps prices more than $ 100 in New York, more than 125 dollars in London .

And then the revolution of shale oil in North Dakota and the Canadian oil sands neighbor has not benefited throughout the U.S. , due to a poor distribution of oil : for the moment the South does not benefit not much , which is highly varying gas prices from one state to another. Opponents of Barack Obama does not fail to remind the host of the White House has so far opposed the construction of the Keystone pipeline , Bay Area Energy Koll Circle san jose ca which would have partially solved this problem .

In the United States the price of gas is at its lowest for ten years

The Americans did not pay their gas as cheap since ... March 2002. On the New York market , the million Btu ( international measurement , equivalent to 28 m3 of gas ) is 2 dollars 40 cents is less than half last year. If the downward trend continues , Bay Area Energy Koll Circle san jose ca the gas in the United States will soon cost less than coal from the lower quality.

The sweetness of temperatures that moderates very unusual way consumption boilers American gas is not the only explanation for the decline in : Europe has the same mild winter and prices are three times higher on the of liquefied natural gas spot market in Britain . Not to mention the bills of European gas companies still subject to Russian contracts linked to oil prices , and very salty .

The U.S. gas market , he is totally disconnected from the world market, Bay Area Energy Koll Circle san jose ca since the boom of shale gas on the territory of the United States. U.S. gas production has now reached 1 700 million m3 per day, which represents more than 600 billion m3 annually : when there was less than ten years the United States was prepared to import gas tower arm , and had even built facilities for regasification of liquefied natural gas transported to Australia or Qatar by boat , they became the world's largest gas producer , ahead of Russia !

More qu'autosuffisants , the United States allow individuals but also to the U.S. chemical industry to consume gas cheap. Bay Area Energy Koll Circle san jose ca But they are also preparing to export liquefied gas from the coast of Louisiana and California . Destination: the more lucrative markets of Europe and especially Asia , where gas is now worth six times more expensive than in the United States.

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