Check out the long-term chart of natural gas from Managed Futures Today and you can see why they call nattie the “widow maker.”    Long periods without a trend will grind your capital into hamburger and drive you to drink.    We just can’t understand why our electric bill keeps going up while natural gas keeps going down.   Must be nice being a natural monopoly.

Nevertheless,  natural gas’ share of the world’s primary energy mix will continue to increase according the latest BP Energy Outlook.  (Click here if charts are not observable)