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title: "NG, Coal, Oil, PM’s"
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description: "Natural gas crushes coal: “In 1985, coal accounted for 57 percent of all power generated in the United States. Last year, it was 42 percent. The U.S…"
published: 2012-05-04
updated: 2012-05-04
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# NG, Coal, Oil, PM’s

Published 2012-05-04

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J.J. Butler

Natural gas crushes coal: “In 1985, coal accounted for 57 percent of all power generated in the United States. Last year, it was 42 percent. The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates it will fall to 40 percent this year. Prices for Appalachian coal are down 24 percent over the past 12 months; for coal from the Powder River Basin in Montana and Wyoming, they’re down 45 percent.” [SF Gate](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/29/BUTO1O9PM3.DTL&type=business)

Natural gas charts; rig count third one down: [EIA](http://www.eia.gov/naturalgas/weekly/?src=email)

Marginal oil production costs for new barrels is higher than I would have thought: [FT Alphaville](http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2012/05/02/983171/marginal-oil-production-costs-are-heading-towards-100barrel/)

Sending Canadian production to Ontario rather than south to the US is proposed to help with the mid-continent glut (for WSJ articles google the title to read the whole thing): [WSJ](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303877604577380092764838780.html?mod=googlenews_wsj)

Petrodollars: [Economist](http://www.economist.com/node/21553424)

Extensive precious metal chart analysis: [Peter Brandt](http://peterlbrandt.com/precious-metals-are-at-do-or-die-spots-on-charts/)

Gold stocks behavior in a gold bull: [Minyanville](http://www.minyanville.com/sectors/precious-metals/articles/gold-gold-producers-commodities-precious-metals/5/2/2012/id/40761)