Ryan Dezember
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644 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2018
last heard Jun 2024
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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Why It Could Cost You More to Beat the Heat This Summer · 25 Jun 2024
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We really look at natural gas prices for a clue.
And natural gas prices are probably lower than we would expect for this time of year because last winter was so warm.
And what that did was leave a lot of natural gas that was stored up to burn in furnaces and boilers to stay warm left over into spring.
Big supply glut pushed prices to historic lows.
And prices have been recovering as demand has gone up as we've been turning on our air conditioners.
And also because a lot of big natural gas producers, when prices dropped to their lowest in decades, adjusted for inflation, now that demand is rising, they're starting to sort of open up the taps and send that gas to market.
Forecasters are a little hesitant to say that July and August will continue on this sort of record-breaking trajectory that we have in June.
But by all accounts, the forecasts are generally assuming a hotter than normal summer.
Weather will be breaking records in August.
You know, it's too early to tell.
But, you know, all signs point to a really steamy summer and a lot of electricity demand.
And keep in mind now, you know, our air conditioners and our homes are now competing with all these massive data centers to power things like AI and to run the cloud computing and such.
So there's really never been a greater demand for natural gas to burn to generate electricity.
Yeah, they better get their checkbook out.
The modern world runs on natural gas.
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It's not just heating, it's not just electricity, but it's also fertilizer is made with huge amounts of natural gas, cement, plastics, cardboard.
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Just about anything you touch is either required natural gas for the energy to produce it or as a feedstock in a chemical sense to make it.
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Well, you really have to go back to last winter after the Ukraine invasion by Russia.
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It shocked energy markets and sent off a global scramble for natural gas.
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We were all expecting really high prices last winter.
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