All that natural gas, wastage bastage

I better not hear anyone complaining there's a fuel shortage, as long as this wastage is allowed to go on.

In North Dakota, the fossil fuel industry squanders $100,000,000 worth of natural gas per month - by intentionally letting it burn off into the air during drilling. This represents one-third of all the gas they drill there.

Drillers say it's because natural gas is so cheap that it's worthless. If it's so cheap, why do utility companies get away with price-gouging customers to heat their homes?

The practice of wasting natural gas by burning it off - known as flaring - creates fires bright enough that NASA astronauts report seeing the flames from outer space.

The world is running out of fuel, and the industry wastes it. It's utterly wosted.

(Source: http://news.msn.com/us/dollar100m-in-natural-gas-being-burned-off-monthly-in-nd)