Fuel for Debate: Pelosi Suggests Natural Gas Isn’t a Fossil Fuel
Posted by Jeffrey Ball
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seemed to suggest in a television interview Sunday that natural gas isn’t a fossil fuel.
From the
post on the Journal’s Washington Wire by Journal reporter John D. McKinnon:
On NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, the speaker twice seemed to suggest that natural gas – an energy source she favors – is not a fossil fuel.
“I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels,” she said at one point. Natural gas “is cheap, abundant and clean compared to fossil fuels,” she said at another.
Rep. Pelosi’s spokesman later said the speaker knows natural gas is a fossil fuel, but likes it because it burns more cleanly than coal and oil.
It’ll be interesting to see how Rep. Pelosi’s embrace of expanded use of natural gas, particularly as a transportation fuel, sits with various parts of U.S. industry. Some big industrial users of natural gas have been arguing for policies that steer other sectors of the economy to different “alternative” fuels — keeping the lion’s share of the gas for themselves.