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North America is littered with natural gas. The reason why we don't hear much about it is because only a fraction of vehicles are designed to burn it and the price of natural gas has been relatively low to make it worthwhile to extract, process, distribute, and sell on a wide scale, comparatively.
Wait until the oil prices are high and sustained a la peak oil, and then you'll see a bigger move to natural gas once (or if) demand (and prices) for that spikes.
I read somewhere recently that compared to gasoline, natural gas emissions are as much as 30% lower. And think of the current move to natural gas from diesel with commercial vehicles.
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Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 11-26-2009 at 09:09 AM..
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