Lots of people may be surprised at how far and how fast the technology for using CNG as a transportation fuel is moving along. Even more people in this country would be surprised to know just how much recoverable natural gas this North American continent contains. The big shale fields-Marcellus, Haynesville, Barnett, etc., are now accessible through directional drilling, and the amount of gas each well produces is astounding. Where I live in north Louisiana there at least 50 rigs drilling at any given moment. The wells are expensive, but there are no dry holes---every well is a producer. This has all happened pretty much overnight, so most of America doesn’t realize that we now have an incredible energy source we didn’t know we had just four or five years ago. I hear the smart guys on TV and radio discussing the move to new energy sources and they don’t even mention natural gas . In my area there is a lot of effort to usher in CNG as the new alternative energy source for our cars and trucks. The cities and counties are in the process of converting their bus and truck fleets and installing CNG filling facilities for both public and private users. A lot of progress has been made in making vehicles that can run on either gasoline or CNG, and the on-board storage problems are being solved. Sure there will be some trade-offs, but we won’t have to give up our beloved internal combustion engines; we won’t have to rely on imports from some hostile foreign country ; we won’t have to build any smelly refineries---most of us live within a few feet or a few miles from a pipeline that flows natural gas every day. If not natural gas, what? Can you guys grow enough corn to replace $200 per barrel oil? It just seems to me to be a natural, logical progression as we look for new fuel sources. This one’s right under our noses, big-time. In order for this to happen several things will have to occur: a widespread realization that it’s a practical idea and a determination to put it into effect; the conversion of the over-the-road truck fleet to CNG, with requisite filling capability at truck stops, which can serve automobiles as well (remember when diesel autos had to re-fill at truck stops? ), and the provision of CNG-ready vehicles from the automakers. I think it’s worth a serious look.
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