As I read more about this out of control well in the gulf.. we suddenly have another spill in Egypt... A government owned oil company trying to cover up?

As I read more and more about our spill here in the gulf... I keep hearing about methane (like it's useless) being burned off, They keep talking about how the methane from these wells like is burned off, it's natural gas! the stuff you cook with. I tried to get a number for how much, but to no avail. This well in the gulf is 40 percent gas. The usual well is closer to 10 percent, by volume or weight, I don't know...

As you have seen from my earlier posts, there is about a Therm of gas (85 cubic feet) to distill every gallon of gas. Where does the other gas come from? and why can't we use the gas that is burned instead. The petroleum equation has been skewed a bit more. This stuff just spewes from the earth and the wholesale price is based on dollars (single digits) per million BTU's.

Where are we that the cost of this resource is so negligable that 20 percent is just flared off and burned into the atmosphere, because it's too expensive to pipe or ship. With our current state of affairs why is any hydrocarbon burned without doing useful work?