Success Quote by Andrew Gould

“Obviously” is doing a lot of work here: it’s a verbal bulldozer that clears away debate before anyone’s had it. Andrew Gould, speaking as a businessman, isn’t trying to inspire; he’s trying to normalize a strategic pivot and frame it as mere common sense. The line reads like boardroom realism, but it’s also a quiet act of agenda-setting.

The intent is straightforward: signal to markets, regulators, and competitors that gas is not a side bet but the next center of gravity. By calling the shift “the” shift, he treats a complex tangle of policy, technology, and geopolitics as an inevitable turning of the wheel. That inevitability is the subtext. If the move to gas is “obvious,” then the only rational response is to scale up supply, build infrastructure, and secure long-term demand. The quote performs reassurance to investors (we know where the puck is going) and a subtle nudge to policymakers (plan for this reality).

“Need for large amounts of gas” lands as both diagnosis and self-fulfilling prophecy. It implies consumption growth as a fact of nature, not a choice shaped by efficiency standards, renewable build-out, or public opposition to pipelines. And “major focus of attention on the part of producers” politely sidesteps the central tension: producers don’t just meet demand; they help manufacture it through lobbying, pricing, and messaging.

Contextually, this kind of language fits an era when natural gas was marketed as the pragmatic bridge fuel - cleaner than coal, scalable, domestically abundant. Gould’s sentence is less about fuel molecules than about permission: permission to invest, expand, and treat the transition’s direction as settled.