It’s a quandary—even for non-enviros. It’s obviously a gross waste...but supposedly, methane is far more greenhouse gassy than the CO2 produced by burning.
Far as I know, farts produced by you eating the sausages you eat cooked on the NG stove are a greater threat to mankind than the raw NG used to cook them. But you already knew that.
” - - - The Obama administration on Friday said it was giving eight federal agencies more time to weigh in on the Keystone XL pipeline, - - - “
The width of a typical, D-Handled, snow shovel is 14.5 inches in North Dakota or Montana, and 37 Centimeters in America’s 57 th State, Canada.
The actual width of the border between the 48 “lower 48” States and the 57 th State is estimated by “settled science” to be less than one millimeter, when measured from Canada, and “not even a smidgen” when lied about in Obamanation.
In the six years that have been required by the Nobel Prize winning “Lead from Behind” Obamanation Administration to make a decision on the one millimeter wide Red Line Border Violation, only eight Federal Bureaus have been amassed to solve how a 14.5 inch wide snow shovel might be best used to create the minimum environmental damage to a one millimeter wide Red Line on the frozen tundra that acts as an impenetrable inequality barrier between two very different ideologies.
On the Democrat Obama side of the ideological Red Line is a pledged oath by Obama to “Barry” the former USA by pledging to “Fundamentally transform the United States of America.”
On the other side of the ideological Red Line is everybody else.
Currently, Democrats and sympathetic doormat Republicans such as Boehner and McConnell have urged Obama to expand the number of Federal Bureaus from a measly 8 to a more equality-based 14.5.
In this way, there would be “shovel-width equality” to the transparently “shovel ready” XL Pipeline project by assigning equal numbers of Federal Bureaus for each inch of a D-Handled snow shovel width.
At last report, Obama and Boehner were meeting to work out a “Grand Bargain” that would NOT be voted on by “wacko bird” extremists from “the fool’s errand” persuasion wing of TEA Party in the US House of Representatives on how best to give all the other “bunch of “ Federal Bureaus a “fair shot” at becoming the one-half Federal Bureau of the US Supreme Court agreed upon mandated 14.5 Federal Bureaus.
Some Women’s groups have already voiced concern that the soon to be designated, one-half Federal Bureau will comprised of equal number of women and men.
Obviously, the gender-neutral will be required to temporarily declare a non-binding statement as to their temporary preference gender of male or female, so that the total number of employees in the half federal Bureau will be an even number.
Equal pay is not expected to be as issue, as all Federal employees are now paid equally, based on gender and not on:
* productivity,
* demonstrated skills or
* competence,
as was commonly done in the bad old days before the doormat Congressional Republican approved rise of Obamanation.
Other concerns voiced by the L.I.E., (Liberal Intelligentsia Elite), about equal distribution of:
* racial backgrounds,
* Gender-based wages from Taxpayer to Federal Permanent Welfare Entitlement Debt ratios,
* employee representation from all of the 57 States,
* and signed confidential pledges to AG Holder’s Department of Gestapo Justice
will be negotiated by Obama’s Labor Relations Board, as readily agreed to by Doormat Republican Boehner.
BTW, Obamanation Official Paid Liar, Jay Carney, is not expected to make any further announcements on the XL Pipeline while negotiations with Doormat Republican Speaker Boehner and President Valerie Jarrett are still ongoing.
Multiple questions from the White House Press Corps went unanswered by a smirking, arrogant Jay Carney, concerning the rumor that Obama is “forward planning” to Nationalize all US Oil and Gas Pipelines in order to use that new revenue to pay for his failed Obamacare Socialized Health Insurance Tax, commonly referred to as OSHIT.
But flared natural gas is not releasing methane, it is releasing H20 and C02, the combustion products of methane.
Granted, that raw well gas contains more than methane, but flared is not the same as vented. This is talking about the flares.