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In Natural Gas, Perspective Is Everything

By Jim Cramer

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 Natural gas is so difficult because the short term is so different from the long term. First, we know that there is a surfeit of nat gas -- this is always a terrible moment for nat gas seasonally, and now is no different. Plus, as anyone can tell, the sellers here are merciless: some short-sellers, and some nat gas companies frantically trying to lock prices in. Oh, and when I speak of short term, I am not speaking of today's reversal, which is obviously quite surprising given the lower low we established today. But long term -- as Anadarko CEO Jim Hackett and my guest on "Mad Money" at the half hour makes clear -- we are fighting the second war of independence, this time from OPEC, and only natural gas can substitute for oil. The issue is the newness of the finds. Four years...

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