moonlog

What about a cash for clunkers-esque program to refit American coal-fired power plants, freight trucking, and government vehicle fleets for natural gas, which is cleaner burning and domestically plentiful. I’m not sure American drivers can be steered toward better fuel economy or less fuel usage, but industries, where bottom lines are at stake, are a different matter.

What I wonder though is, if natural gas is so much better than petrol, why does this country lag so far behind on natural gas? Other technologies are years of development time away from feasibility, and yet natural gas has been around forever and could have been implemented the last time we had an energy crisis in the ’70s.