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|“For more than 177 million Americans…” |Inside Cover, 19, |AGA Gas Facts, U.S. Census Bureau Table AVG1, American |

| |27, 64 |Housing Survey |

|“…providing natural gas service safely and effectively to more than | | |

|177 million Americans…” | | |

| |2 |AGA |

|“37 states have adopted or are currently considering innovative | | |

|pipeline expansion proposals to deliver gas to communities that don’t| | |

|yet have it.” | | |

|Chart: “U.S Natural Gas Future Supply (Potential Gas Committee)” | |U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information |

|(Reserves plus resources) |5 |Administration (EIA) Table 17; |

| | |Potential Gas Committee; |

|U.S estimated future supply of natural gas (Reserves plus resources) | |U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information |

|stood at 2,884 Tcf at year end 2014 ; Production 27.3 Tcf; |6 |Administration (EIA) Table 17; |

|Consumption 26.7 Tcf; Reserves 369 Tcf; Potential Resources 2,515 | |Potential Gas Committee; U.S. Department of Energy, |

|Tcf; 2.7 Tcf LNG and Pipeline gas from Canada | |Energy Information Administration Production; U.S. |

| | |Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration|

| | |Consumption; U.S. Department of Energy, Energy |

| | |Information Administration |

|Map: Regional Resource Assessment |7 |Potential Gas Committee; |

|Chart: State Natural Gas Gross Withdrawals |8 |U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information |

| | |Administration (EIA); |

|Charts: Natural Gas Supply -2022 and Natural Gas Use -2022 |9 |AGA, Promise Delivered: Planning, Preparation and |

| | |Performance During the 2013-2014 Winter Heating Season |

|Natural Gas Price Outlook |10 |AGA, Rethinking Natural Gas, A Future for Natural Gas |

| | |in the U.S. Economy |

| | | |

| | |EIA Annual Energy Outlook |

|Savings for Consumers |11 |AGA, Residential Natural Gas Market Survey; AGA Energy |

| | |Analysis, A Comparison of Energy Use, Operating Costs, |

| | |and Carbon Dioxide Emissions of Home Appliances. |

| | |(Charts and tables are updated annually with new data |

| | |(Bruce McDowell) even though EA is not updated |

| | |annually) |

| | | |

| | | |

|Low domestic natural gas prices have led to savings of almost $69 | 11 |EA – Identifying Key Economic Impacts of Recent |

|billion for residential natural gas customers over the past four | |Increases in U.S. Natural Gas Production |

|years. | |(Charts and tables are updated annually with new data |

| | |(Bruce McDowell) even though EA is not updated |

| | |annually) |

| | | |

| | |Cumulative – add this year’s savings to the total and |

| | |increase year total by one |

|Chart: Annual Energy Prices to Residential Consumers |12 |U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information |

| | |Administration; U.S. Department of Energy, Energy |

| | |Information Administration, Heating Oil and Propane |

|The U.S. Department of Energy forecast for the average residential |13 |U.S. Department of Energy, Today in Energy |

|gas customer during the 2015-2016 winter indicates savings in annual | | |

|heating costs of $248 compared to the higher-priced winter of | | |

|2008-2009. These savings represent a more than 30% advantage for | | |

|customers | | |

|Residential Price $12.87 When Supply is Constrained (’08-’09) $826 |13 |U.S. Department of Energy, Today in Energy |

|Annual | | |

|Residential Price $10.57 When Supply is Strong (’15-’16) $578 Annual | | |

|Heating Value Compared to Other Energy Sources |14 |U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency |

| | |and Renewable Energy (Brendan O’Brien updates the AGA |

| | |data) |

|622,000 jobs are directly involved in exploring for, producing, | | |

|transporting and distributing natural gas (direct employment). |16 | |

|Natural gas distribution employment provided between 116,000 and | |America’s Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA) |

|122,000 (nearly 20%) of these direct jobs | | |

|723,000 additional jobs are created in industries such as agriculture|16 | |

|and manufacturing that support and supply goods and services to the | |America’s Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA) |

|natural gas industry (indirect employment). | | |

|1.5 million jobs are supported when direct and indirect natural gas |16 | |

|employees introduce their income back into the economy and create | |America’s Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA) |

|demand for further goods and services (induced employment). | | |

|“Natural gas utilities spend $22 billion annually to help enhance the|19, 29 |Calculation based on |

|safety of natural gas “distribution and transmission systems.” | |AGA, Gas Facts |

| | |AGA, Gas Facts |

|Natural Gas Pipelines, which transport approximately one-fourth of |20 |U.S. Department of Energy, EIA |

|the energy consumed in the U.S. … | | |

|“2.5 million miles of natural gas pipelines” | |AGA Gas Facts, U.S. Department of Transportation |

|“This includes 2.2 million miles of local utility distribution |20 | |

|pipelines and 300,000 miles of transmission pipelines that stretch | | |

|across the country” | | |

|“…excavation damages for all underground facilities have decreased by|22, 23 |Common Ground Alliance |

|approximately 50% since 2004.” | | |

|“In the past decade, natural gas utilities have installed updated |28 |AGA, Gas Facts |

|plastic lines at a rate of 30,000 miles per year.” | |U.S. Department of Transportation PHMSA |

|Since 1990, natural gas utilities added more than 600,000 miles of |29 |AGA, Gas Facts |

|distribution and services to serve more than 17 million new customers| |U.S. Department of Transportation PHMSA |

| | |AGA, Gas Facts |

|The dedicated efforts of natural gas utilities over the past three |29 |U.S. Department of Transportation PHMSA |

|decades have led to an approximately 40% decline in pipeline | | |

|incidents over the past 10 years. | | |

|Natural gas utilities work every day to maintain the safety and |30 |AGA, Gas Facts |

|reliability of their systems, investing billions in our nation’s | | |

|millions of miles of natural gas pipeline infrastructure | | |

|Map: States with Infrastructure Cost Recovery Mechanisms |31 |AGA |

| | | |

|“39 States have specific rate mechanisms that foster accelerated rate|32, 33 |AGA |

|replacement of pipelines no longer fit for service” | | |

|“37 states have adopted or considered innovative expansion proposals,| | |

|and that number continues to grow” | | |

|Record Performance: |34 |AGA, Promise Delivered: Planning, Preparation and |

|139 Bcf Consumed on Jan. 7, 2014 | |Performance During the 2013-2014 Winter Heating Season |

|Only $12 per month increase on average | | |

|“+18% more storage capacity than 2002-2003” |35 |AGA, Promise Delivered: Planning, Preparation and |

| | |Performance During the 2013-2014 Winter Heating Season |

| | | |

| | |EIA, Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report |

|Chart: U.S. Consumer Consumption by Sector = 24.3 Tcf (31% Industrial| |U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information |

|– 7.6 Tcf; 21% Residential – 5.1 Tcf; 14% Commercial – 3.5 Tcf; and |39 |Administration, Annual Energy Review |

|34% Electricity Generation – 8.1 Tcf) | | |

|“The direct use of natural gas in America’s homes and businesses |42 |Gas Technology Institute |

|maintains about 92% of its usable energy, and a household with | | |

|natural gas versus all-electric appliances produces 37% lower | | |

|greenhouse gas emissions. Converting natural gas or any other fossil | | |

|fuel into electricity to power comparable electric end-use products | | |

|and appliances only maintains 32% of usable energy.” | | |

|Chart: Electricity v Natural Gas Energy Loss from Source to Delivery |43 |Gas Technology Institute |

|Chart: Residential Water Heater Efficiency. (Cost Comparison, | |AGA Energy Analysis, A Comparison of Energy Use, |

|Full-Fuel-Cycle Energy Consumption, and CO2 Emissions) |44 |Operating Costs, and Carbon Dioxide Emissions of Home |

| | |Appliances. (Charts and tables are updated annually |

| | |with new data even though EA is not updated annually – |

| | |Bruce McDowell) Jim Ranfone or Paul Cabot can update |

| | |the minimum Efficiency Ratings |

|Chart: Residential Natural Gas Use: An Efficiency Success Story | |AGA Gas Facts and U.S. Department of Energy, Energy |

| |48 |Information Administration |

|Commitment to Efficiency: Utilities helped customers save 175 |49 |AGA Natural Gas Efficiency Programs Report |

|trillion Btus of energy and offset 9.1 million metric tons of carbon | | |

|dioxide emissions in 2014. | | |

|Chart: Natural Gas Efficiency Program Investments in the United State|49 |AGA Natural Gas Efficiency Programs Report |

|Chart: Full-Fuel-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions of a Typical |52 |AGA Energy Analysis, A Comparison of Energy Use, |

|Household | |Operating Costs, and Carbon Dioxide Emissions of Home |

| | |Appliances. |

|“In 2013, there were 6.8 million households that used fuel oil for |53 |6.8 million – American Community Survey; |

|heating in the Northeast. Converting those consumers to natural gas | |666 gallons/household – U.S. Department of Energy, EIA,|

|could reduce approximately 4.5 billion gallons of annual distillate | |Short-term Energy Outlook; |

|fuel oil consumption, the equivalent of 0.3 million barrels of | |42 gallons per barrel |

|distillate fuel oil per day, which represents 2.5% of total imports.”| | |

|If all 6.8 million homes in New England converted to natural gas, the|53 |? |

|fuel savings alone could potentially spur more than 30,000 new jobs | | |

|in the U.S. while increasing GDP by $9 Billion annually. | | |

|Since 1990, the number of pipeline leaks have decreased 25% for |54 |AGA Gas Facts, U.S. Department of Transportation |

|pipeline mains and 16% for services even as the industry added nearly| | |

|300,000 miles of distribution mains to serve 18 million more | | |

|customers, an increase of 30% in both cases. | | |

|“the 50 AGA member companies participating in the Natural Gas STAR |55 |U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), |

|program reduced methane emissions by 0.8 Bcf in 2013 – and a total of| | |

|46.2 Bcf since 1993.” | | |

|Chart: Emissions Have Declined Even as Pipelines Have Expanded |56 |AGA Energy Analysis, A Comparison of Energy Use, |

| | |Operating Costs, and Carbon Dioxide Emissions of Home |

| | |Appliances. (Charts and tables are updated annually |

| | |with new data (Bruce McDowell) even though EA is not |

| | |updated annually) |

| | | |

| | | |

| | |AGA Natural Gas Utilities Continue to Modernize |

| | |Pipeline Infrastructure |

| | | |

| | |AGA, Gas Facts |

|“In 2014, natural gas accounted for more than 27% of electricity |57 |U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information |

|generation in the U.S.” | |Administration Table 7.2a Excel Spreadsheet, Column |

| | |D/Column N |

|Due to higher efficiency of natural gas combined cycle generation |57 |Congressional Research Service |

|compared with coal-fired boilers, natural gas emits 52 to 56% less | | |

|GHG than coal for the same amount of energy | | |

|Chart: Residential Energy Consumption – Expanding the direct use of | |U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information |

|natural gas in homes and businesses can reduce the energy lost in the|59 |Administration |

|generation and distribution of electricity. | | |

|Fold Out Diagram: Separate Production of Electricity and Heat v. |60 |ICF International |

|Combined Heat and Power Systems (CHP) | | |

|66.7 Million Households, 5.4 million Commercial Customers, 192,000 |70, 71 |AGA Gas Facts |

|Factories and Manufacturers, and 1,900 Electric Power Plants | | |

|Frequently used units for measuring gas: |72 |U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information |

|1 cubic foot (cf) = 1,028 Btu | |Administration, Monthly Energy Review |

|In 2012, the average U.S. home consumed 61,200 cubic feet of natural |73 |AGA, Gas Facts |

|gas (or 62.7 million Btu). (All of the other references on this page | | |

|are derived from this one number.) | | |

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|* - These should be updated next year with an updated base year of | | |

|consumption. | | |

|In 2013, the average U.S. home consumed 71,500 cf of natural gas (or |74 |AGA, Gas Facts |

|73.5 million Btu). On a daily basis, the average U.S. home used 196 | | |

|cubic feet of natural gas. | | |

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