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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (14318)	6/25/2009 1:26:16 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

"all the busses in Australia are run 100% on natural gas," Interesting. I did not know that. (But then - Australia has loads of natural gas. Just as the US does, especially now that so many discoveries have been made within shale basins....) "I thought why can't we just do that here? Including all cars?" T. Boone seems to think that the 'low-hanging fruit' is the transportation fleets... interstate trucking, metro area bus fleets, etc. I believe his argument is that building the vehicles (to run on nat. gas) is not especially difficult, but getting the refueling infrastructure up and running is more difficult. With metro area bus fleets going back to their garages every day, and with most interstate trucking fleets sticking pretty close to the interstate highways and their associated truck stops, it would be much easier and cheaper to establish refueling for trucks and buses then it would be for all personal autos. First thing first I guess. (But at today's prices for nat. gas, and converting for the BTU-to-BTU equivalence of the various fuels, nat. gas would come out as much cheaper then diesel. Of course, vastly cleaner in emissions too... and near 100% North American supplied.)