With gasoline prices soaring each day to the feared $5 dollar mark, one man understands it all too well. Energy investor T. Boone Pickens has been using and advocating CNG for years, but its apparent to him that no-one in Washington is listening. Watch this short video clip to learn the honest truth about the US’s oil crisis, and how it doesn’t have to be a crisis at all if we just used renewable resources around us, such as natural gas.
For those that are looking to get a little more help from uncle Sam in order to get their vehicle switched over to CNG, good things are currently in the works. Earlier this month, 4 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have sponsored a bill which has been designed to increase the use of cng as a vehicle fuel, along with more than 50 other co-sponsors to the bill.
The bill was introduced by John Sullivan (R-OK), Dan Boren (D-OK), John Larson (D-CT) and Kevin Brady (R-TX). The bill is called the New Alternative Transportation To Give Americans Solutions Act of 2011 (NAT GAS). This bill would essentially increase the incentives for using natural gas in a vehicle, buying a CNG car, or installing an at home fueling station.
The NAT GAS Act would also greatly increase the tax credits allowed for CNG cars in different states. An easy way to find out if your state offers these kickbacks is by simply visiting your state’s website. The Act also lessens the burden felt by manufacturers and will give credits to CNG manufacturers who make CNG cars. This would be a fantastic thing to have happen as it would hopefully allow more manufacturers to start making CNG vehicles. The last Act that was passed in 2004 allowed manufacturers to meet the alternative fuel rule by producing cars that run on flex fuel, but that definitely has not caught on.
One of the greatest things about this act is the fact that natural gas that will be needed to power vehicles can all be produced right here in the U.S.A. This would create jobs and wean us off of the dependence of foreign oil. Hopefully this act will catch on, so please make your local state representatives aware of this bill and lets all work to get it passed off!
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.
