Oil vs Natural Gas (CNG)
The huge gulf oil disaster has recently brought to light what many activists have been fighting for years. The U.S. is so dependent on oil that we are willing to destroy ways of life and marine life in the gulf coast area. Now i’m not blaming people here, but there are several alternatives to oil that have been around for almost 30 years such as CNG vehicle technology. Why are we then forced to use oil for our vehicles?
The government used to make car makers dedicate a certain percentage of their fleet to alternative fuel vehicles. that is why you will be able to find many CNG vehicles that go up to a 2004 year model. Why are there no cng cars made by huge car makers after 2004? (excluding Honda) The reason is because flex fuel was invented which is a mixture of ethanol with regular petrol. This alternative fuel still relies heavily on the oil industry as opposed to CNG which does not. This once again begs the question why the government continues to force us to use oil? I’m not a government conspiracy theorist, but its an undeniable fact that the U.S. government is addicted to oil.
(Korean Federation for Environmental Movement via Associated Press)
Did you know that the U.S. has enough natural gas to allow us to completely cut off our foreign supply of oil? Did you know that unlike oil, natural gas is a renewable resource? That’s right, natural gas wells, once depleted, can refill within 5-10 years! In fact natural gas is just seeping out of the ground and we aren’t doing anything about it. Corporate greed and large corporations have recently just shown us how much they care about the environment and people’s way of life, which is not at all. It’s time for us at U.S. citizens to step up and commission our legislators to push to make CNG conversions easier to obtain and to make them easier to legalize in all 50 states.
There is no disputing that CNG is better for the environment, runs cleaner, and helps engines double and even triple their normal life cycles. To help stop the brutal killing of life and ways of life that oil continues to carry out, we need to stand up and start using the resources here in our own country that is just seeping out of the ground anyway.