US Secretary Of Energy To Review New England's Natural Gas Shortage; New England Is Too Dependent On Natural Gas -- Well, Duh, The President Killed The Coal Industry -- Does Anyone Do The Math Any More?

I thought I had posted this; I guess I forgot. The story was sent to me by a reader.

The Courant (not be confused with the currant, or raisin) is reporting:

The head of the U.S. Department of Energy is calling for a review of New England's natural gas shortage, which has led to higher electricity prices and concerns that the region's electric grid is overly dependent on the fuel. [As a result, by the way, of the president's successful war on coal.]

Secretary Ernest J. Moniz said in a letter to New England senators that the issue of tight natural gas supplies will be one of the first raised in a broad federal review of the country's energy system, which President Barack Obama requested earlier this month.

A stakeholder meeting in the next few months will kick off the review, Moniz said. "As a New Englander myself, I am acutely aware of the constraints that existing infrastructure to and within the New England region present for the transmission of natural gas to customers, industrial facilities, and power plants," Moniz, who is from Massachusetts, wrote in a letter to U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy and others.

I assume he will find that the best and the brightest, the Harvard University graduates of the 1980's are primarily responsible for the energy shortages experienced in New England this winter. [I can't make this stuff up: the US Energy secretary says the northeast is too dependent on natural gas, and yet it was his boss that killed the alternative: coal.]

It should be noted that the regions of the country run by the best and brightest from universities in Texas, Oklahoma, and North Dakota, are doing just fine, thank you.