“Politicians seem to be struggling to deliver on voters’ affordability concerns about housing, health care and more, but natural gas is doing just fine…. No single politician can take credit for this. Maybe that’s why it has worked.”
The editorial board of the Washington Post last month gave a shout out to natural gas. Kudos to the Post for magnifying the obvious.
“Natural gas remains affordable. Here’s how” (September 22, 2026), subtitled “It wasn’t a genius plan by the government,” began:
As the Iran conflict continues to roil energy markets, sending crude oil and gasoline prices higher, there’s one bright spot for American customers: natural gas. For that, they can thank American innovation and free markets.
Continuing:
The reason for the lower prices is not less demand; in fact, demand is expected to continue its years-long rise. It’s not price controls; those were fully repealed in 1993. Enormous supply is what’s keeping costs down. On top of an annual production record expected this year, there is also more natural gas surplus in storage for the coming winter than in any year since 2016. The surplus is expected to last into March.
Turning to the official statistics and analyses from the U.S. Energy Information Administration:
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