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 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.

With the huge BP oil spill that is killing marine life and ruining the ocean, many American’s and the world are thinking of how to take back our precious earth.  One of the ways we can do this is by using fuels that do not harm the environment and that are renewable.  The BP oil spill is helping the world to see how bad our reliability is on oil.  The reality is setting in that we are fine as a people to kill the environment if it means we can fill up our car.  Well if you are like me, i do not think this way and sadly to say, there are plenty of renewable resources right here in our own country that we arent even using.  One such resource is natural gas.

Did you know that Natural Gas wells replenish themselves within a matter of years?  Thats right!  There is natural gas just seeping out of the ground and we are not even harnessing it.  Natural Gas cars, or CNG cars as they are commonly called, use this renewable resource in place of gasoline.  The best part about a CNG car with a CNG kit that has been retrofitted into the engine is that with the flip of a switch, you can choose to run on oil or CNG while in the midst of driving without skipping a beat.  CNG kits costs around 2 thousand dollars, but did you know that a natural gas car can run much longer than a car that runs on gasoline?  Most CNG cars average about 500-700 thousand miles before the engine gives way.  This is a significantly longer lasting time than most cars could even dream of. 

Now is the time to stand up and let our legislation know that the T. Boone Pickins dream of having natural gas stations in every state must become a reality if we are to keep our environment in tact.  CNG cars are the replacement of oil as we know it, we just need to push as a society and culture to make this happen!