Natural Gas Vehicles: Opportunity and Adoption

Here is a sad, but true, fact: there are more than 13 million natural gas powered cars and trucks in the world, and only 112,000 of those are in the United States. This is even more disturbing considering President Obama appealed to his audience in his 2012 State of the Union address that “We have a supply of natural gas that can last America nearly 100 years.” 

The Latest on Natural Gas Vehicles

A growing use for natural gas is as a transportation fuel. Compressed natural gas (CNG) is used in cars and trucks and liquefied natural gas (LNG) is used in over-the-road tractor-trailer trucks. According to the Green Car Journal, natural gas is a clean fuel that is almost exclusively domestically sourced and is typically priced 30% less than gasoline.

Energy in Depth: NYT's "Dewey-Defeats-Truman" Moment on Shale?

In debate over promise, potential and economics of shale gas, NYT calls it early for the opposition – but they might be embarrassed about that later. 

(Reprinted with permission from Energy in Depth)

EPA Chief Lisa Jackson says natural gas production is "a good thing"

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) told a House committee on May 24 that she favored natural gas production and said she didn’t know of any “proven case” in which hydraulic fracturing had affected drinking water.