Most of us are still recovering from the high gas prices that plagued the nation back in 2008.  Since that time, oil companies have continued to gain strength and paying over $2.60 for a gallon of gas is normal.  The sad thing is that oil companies have made record profits within the last 2 years, and high gas prices are not helping a nation dwindling in optimism and desperate for jobs.  What can be done about this?

The main problem is our dependency on foreign oil.  Did you know that America has enough resources right here at home to be completely self sufficient without the aid of any foreign country?  Natural gas is seeping out of the ground naturally, and we arent even capturing it!  One of the neatest things about natural gas wells is that once they are depleted, given enough time, they will refill.  This is a renewable resource!  Oil is not.  So what can people like you and me do to help get the everyone else on the band wagon?  There have been some positive signs for alternative energy with windmills and solar panel farms being built around the nation.  T. Boone Pickins shows commercials all the time about switching our large semi fleets to natural gas resources.  Companies like Honda are definitely going the right route as they build CNG civic’s and are also working on newer vehicles that will run on natural gas. 

Chevy, Ford, and Chrysler used to make CNG cars, but do not anymore and have not since 2004.  The biggest problem people run into when looking for a CNG car is that there usually is not a commercial CNG station near their home for them to fill up.  Companies have solved this issue by creating pumps that can fit in your garage to use the natural gas of your home.  Can you imagine never having to go to a gas station again?  This dream i a reality, its just that not enough people have jumped on the wagon so to speak.  The main way that CNG cars will become main stream is if we get more cng stations built around the nation.  Once these stations are mainstream, CNG cars will follow.