Comment: HCH,  thanks for the kind words. 
We should bring ANGDA back to life as an independent brainstorming group.

Trying to reconcile what I learned about hydrocarbons and electrochemistry beginning in the 1960's, in contrast to the popular mindset of Global Oilies who handle our global hydrocarbon resources backwards with terrible lack of efficiency causing horrid global waste and sloppy carbon imbalance....  all gives me a terrible headache. Wasting the gas to produce CRUDE is STUPID. You can look at the NightLights in BlueMarble to see Nslope is emitting more waste heat+light than Anchorage and Fairbanks combined. Fly over the Nsloppy wearing FLIR-goggles and the infrared is blinding.

If GAS was the preferred feedstock product over CRUDE the entire hydrocarbon resource would last for 500 years, not 50 years. The entire hydrocarbon architecture would favor decentralized local regions, better than centralized monopoly control where all pipelines point to Texas.