The LNG boom in the United States is helping households pay less for electricity, Energy Secretary Rick Perry told Fox News. “We’re driving down the cost of electricity in most places in America,” he said. “[With the exception of] some places like New York that forbid natural gas pipelines from being built across their state,” the Energy Secretary said, adding that New York currently had one of the highest costs of energy per kilowatt-hour. “There are points in time where New Yorkers are having to look for different forms of energy and they’re going to old inefficient fuel-oil to drive that,” Perry also said, adding these alternatives were both more expensive and less environmentally friendly than LNG. According to Perry, the U.S. domestic market is receiving about seven billion cu ft of LNG equivalent daily, and this will soon rise by another 3 billion cu ft after a terminal […]