a little more than an hour ago -- new mexico gas company spoke for the first time about why tens of thousands of new mexicans have no natural gas service. the company is blaming supply and demand, and a lack of pressure to push the gas through the pipelines. jeremy jojola is back from a press conference about the issue. he's joins us now to explain what the two big problems are. jeremy. the oblems: supply and demand and a lack of pressure in gas pipes feeding the state from west texas. black outs in texas have cut off power to compressors in west texas that feed gas into the state. with the low pressure--and high demand for natural gas--it's impossible to supply everyone. so 24-thousand people across the state are doing without natrual gas at this hour. in cmunities like taos, bernalillo, alamagordo and silver city. we asked new mexico gas company why those compressors in texas don't have emergency generators ...here's what the vice president of technical services said "well when the compressor stations, lose power, which they are doing through the brown outs, they are unable to compress the gas...which means we can't get the gas up here. jojola: why don't these compressor stations have maybe emergency generators? some do and some don't i cant' really comment on all of our upstreams suppler situations those compressors do not belong to new mexico gas--they belong to other suppliers. when asked when this problem will be solved...new mexico gas couldn't give a specific answer, citing the continuing cold weather.
