Westexas:

One question which I have is about so-called natural gas liquids. It seems to me that the unconventional gas sources, such as coal bed or shale gas, would not include the heavier hydrocarbons, such as propane and butane, which might be included with gas taken from the caps on oil fields or separated from oil itself. As the U.S. produces more of the unconventional gas to offset the declining conventional sources, wouldn't that imply less production of these components? Aren't we then facing a shortage of propane, which is widely used for heat, especially in agricultural drying operations and rural home heating?

E. Swanson