"The natural gas drilling rush that promises to supply a century of the nation's energy needs with domestic fuel is lacking one critical element:

Demand.
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"There's a lot of gas in the marketplace now, but not a lot of places for it to go," said Bruce McDowell, director of policy analysis for the American Gas Association.

Increasingly, industry watchers say, the most promising cure for the glut isn't natural gas-powered vehicles or manufacturing. It's in the declining popularity of coal, the country's dominant power plant fuel.

The federal push to limit emissions has utilities searching for cost-effective alternatives to traditional coal plants.

"We've got to find a way to increase uses for natural gas," McDowell said. "Power generation is the obvious choice.""

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