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Rising (oil-linked) gas prices - a message from shale gas /William C. Ramsay. IFRI Edito Energie, 16 mars 2011http://www.ifri.org/?page=detail-contribution&#38;id=6484One benefit that should flow soon from large new sources of shale gas  that have been and will be unleashed into world markets – is the  realization that gas prices linked to oil prices don’t make sense any  more.  The counterintuitive announcements around Europe these days that  gas prices to end users will have to go up – because gas prices are  linked to oil prices through some outdated pricing concept – should  bring gas consumers out onto European streets.  It means that every time  another oil producer boils up in social turmoil because its population  is fed up with the poor governance of its oil wealth and is out  demonstrating on their streets – the price of oil goes up everywhere and  so does the price of gas – if they are linked.  American gas prices  don’t go up because oil does.  And in today’s market, LNG prices still  only equate to $60 oil...