dpb wrote:

IMO the use of natural gas, while currently plentiful, for
central-station generation is an egregious error in judgment
for the longer term.

I agree, because natural gas should be used for residential / commercial
heating in the winter - not to generate electricity to run air
conditioners in the summer.

Because when the natural gas runs low (10 years, 50 years from now)
there's going to be a calamity to try to figure out how to keep people
warm in the winter...