Prediction: The U.S. is Heading for NatGas Storage Crisis Next Winter

While the recent spike over the past week in natural gas prices was a fluke, an anomaly due to a rare snow and freezing cold event in the nation's southwest and Midcontinent regions, the long-term price of natural gas has not moved all that much. The NYMEX futures prices for natgas month by month for the foreseeable future has stayed under or just above the $3/MMBtu mark. Yet we continue to see predictions of alarm that we're heading for a natgas shortage and with it, a rise in gas prices.

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