The price of gas, which has been on the rise for sometime now, has recently surged even higher since the mass destruction brought on by Hurricane Katrina (Wong). In her efforts to perpetuate the high cost of gas, Katrina has prompted operators to close more than a tenth of the country's refining capacity and a quarter of its oil production which in turn has had a great deal to do with the steady climbing of gas prices. This has exacerbated a growing problem that has been forever looming in the shadows: the inevitable extinction of natural gas.

At this time, the nation and most parts of the world are heavily dependent upon the earth's natural gas and are desperately trying to get the previously closed oil refineries up and running again (Wong). However, doing this takes much needed time and money: two things that are growing shorter by...