In 2005, I joined the energy industry, and I very quickly settled on natural gas as the backbone of any clean, prosperous, and functioning society. At the time, this was not controversial. Natural gas was still considered “green”—or at least green enough—and enjoyed the quiet approval of polite society. It was the reasonable bridge fuel. Sensible. Modern. Civilized.
That status did not last long.
Before I ended my corporate life, I had acquired a certain reputation as an LNG aficionado, and at some point the questions started to change tone. I was no longer asked why gas, but why I had “sold my soul” to an energy form that supposedly had no future. According to many insiders, natural gas was already a dying branch of the energy world, doomed by its rebranding as a fossil fuel. A dead man walking.
I ignored them and stuck to my guns.
Methane energy was the logical choice then, and it remains the logical choice now. Everything else was either genuinely dirty or so socially destructive that it could only survive as long as money could be conjured endlessly out of thin air. And I always assumed that this magic trick would eventually fail. Societies cannot run forever on fantasy balance sheets and moral posturing.
Now that time has arrived. Suddenly, people dare to speak up. But ten or fifteen years ago, defending natural gas marked you as a heretic. You were not just wrong—you were immoral. An apostate from the new faith.
And yet, the heretic was right.
Despite everything that has happened in Russia and Ukraine, the LNG planet has never been larger, more active, or better positioned for the future. LNG is expanding into new domains, new applications, new geographies. It is flexible, scalable, and brutally honest about physics and economics—qualities that matter again now that reality has re-entered the room.
The future is methane. The future is LNG.
Young people: take note.