Money. This is real money. You are the most important part of the show so join our live conversation for the next half hour, aj realmoney. Natural gas prices are going up way up. 6. 06 per million btu, the same way we quote oirl prices by the barrel. So far this Year National gas prices shot up 43 . Only february. The price hit a five year high before dipping and trading. Obviously, the werent Winter Weather does have something to it. Increasingly industry uses its to power its plants and in case you, 30 of the plesk, generated in this country is generated by natural gas plants. Huge advances in horizontal drilling going deep into the shame and then turning and shale and then turning and combining with fracturing for fracking as you know i. T. , this isnt anywhere close to allow natural gas that is been in 2008, price shot up to 13. 29. Now, those lower prices, fueled which abundant supplies, Health Utility to switch from coal to natural gas. And that benefited consumers and some say t