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To: thames_sider who wrote (48505)	12/2/2005 4:07:19 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 104155

SF has lots of hills. " Portland. LA is a different story :>)

To: thames_sider who wrote (48505)	12/2/2005 5:50:18 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 104155

Gas supply crisis may be in the pipeline for UK John Bowker, The Scotsman HE MAY have had to dash into a side-room to evade the wrath of Greenpeace, but Tony Blair, the Prime Minister, finally blurted out the inevitable: an energy crisis is looming and it needs to be addressed. Energy was "back on the agenda with a vengeance", he announced. "Round the world you can sense feverish rethinking. Energy prices have risen. Energy supply is under threat." ... So, how did we mistime it so spectacularly? David Odling, gas and commercial issues manager at oil and gas body UKOOA, admits that the industry "should have known" of the problem around 1999 or 2000 - when UK production reached its peak. But he adds: "The problem is that you sometimes can't see the top of the mountain until you are standing on top of it." He adds - reasonably - that the planning process in the UK has become so tortuous that it was impossible to rush through the projects. ... Storage is highlighted by Ofgem as one of the key drivers of last week's high gas prices - more even than fears over security of supply. "The much colder weather than usual increased demand," it said, "which led to gas being taken out of storage earlier than normal. "This is more expensive ... as storage operators will only sell stored gas if prices are at, or above, the levels that they would expect to receive if they sold it in January or February, the period when it is usually used." ... (30 November 2005) energybulletin.net