$40 QUESTION -- Category: Oil Knowing

If you are drilling for natural gas, what does it smell like?

1. Nothing. It's usually odorless and colorless.
   
2. It has a strong odor sort of like rotten eggs -- you smell it at your stove at home.
   
3. It's mostly methane gas, so it smells like a cross between rotting garbage and your brother's unwashed sweat socks.
   
   

Congratulations! You got that one correct. Give yourself $40.00! In nature, natural gas, which IS mostly methane, IS odorless. Before it is piped to storage tanks, however, a chemical is added that gives off the strong odor, making it possible for you to smell a gas leak.

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