I think tranisitioning to natural gas is silly. Its at best a bridge technology before an eventual tranisition to solar. Given the opportunity to leapfrog a g

I think tranisitioning to natural gas is silly. Its at best a bridge technology before an eventual tranisition to solar. Given the opportunity to leapfrog a generation of technology and infrastructure while doing less damage to the environment is a now brainer. Plus, investing in solar gives the US the opportunity to liquiefy the natural gas and export it, helping the trade imbalance and displacing the new coal fired plants being built abroad. When building a power plant the expected return is usually about 40 years. We shouldn't be asking ourselves what infrastructure we want in 5-10 years, but how we want our energy infrastructure to look in 30-50 years. In 30 years I'm pretty confident solar will be cheaper than natural gas, so why build out all this infrastructure to switch to natural gas cars etc? At best natural gas is a good resource for handling the intermittency problem with solar. Gas power plants fire up and shut down very quick and efficiently comared to other types of power. Thus they're a great compliment to a power source that currently cannot be stored for night time use.