Lowered oil prices and confidence about future supplies will jump start the whole economy, creating thousands more jobs.

But some of the $80 million is contracts for future supplies, not money actually spent.

But customer uncertainty about future supply and service has led buyers to increasingly consider Japanese models.

There are debates about the future supply of informal care by families in future decades.

Where cheap gas is available and its future supply relatively secure, this also poses a major problem for nuclear projects.

With future supplies cut off, demand will soar, and prices with it.

The letter said Broadwater appeared to have no firm contracts for buyers of the future supply.

The smaller a company's future supply, the less the market will pay.

More importantly, it is the expectation of future supply and demand that drives the price.

"Nearly all our future supplies of natural gas lie under the seabed," he said.