US Natural Gas Price Falls to $2

The price of 1,000 cubic feet (or 1 million BTUs) of natural gas fell to $2 for the first time in more than 10 years today. In electronic trading, the current price is $1.98/thousand cubic feet. A warm winter and…

Published April 11, 2012, 4:15pm ET · 1 min read

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The price of 1,000 cubic feet (or 1 million BTUs) of natural gas fell to $2 for the first time in more than 10 years today. In electronic trading, the current price is $1.98/thousand cubic feet.

A warm winter and a production boom from the nation’s shale gas fields has sent the cost of natural gas plummeting nearly -60% since last summer. About the only thing that will raise prices now is a very warm summer that will increase the demand for air conditioning.

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Paul Ausick

Paul Ausick has been writing for 247Wallst.com for more than a decade. He has written extensively on investing in the energy, defense, and technology sectors. In a previous life, he wrote technical documentation and managed a marketing communications group in Silicon Valley.

He has a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Chicago and now lives in Montana, where he fishes for trout in the summer and stays inside during the winter.

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