To: clochard who wrote (158795 ) 10/21/2011 5:08:17 PM From: profile_14 14 Recommendations Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 206099 Or maybe legislation will not permit it and the threat of litigation is enough to keep a lid on it. Considering our economy depends on cheap liquid fuel, transporting the cheap liquid NG requires infrastructure dependent on permits from an unfriendly administration to create all sorts of distribution, storage, and fueling, not to mention countless billions from individual companies that have to invest real dollars to modify engines and appliances to utilize the "new" fuel. It takes time and confidence in a government leadership (OK, that is an oxymoron) that understands the need to get the heck out of the way for someone to do something constructive for the country. Today the vacuum in acumen and leadership on the left side of the aisle is astounding, revealing, and sad in this regard. Short of putting a propeller on the roof of your car and providing additional solar loans to Finnish companies and blaming Chinese dumping for the uncompetitive position of the US solar industry that is rigged with related parties to politicians mostly on the left, in an effort to distract and misdirect attention from the egregious Solyndra scandal, one cannot do anything. The Sierra Club has the flailing democrats by the gonads and not even Harry Reid who wanted to propose essentially the Pickens Plan could muster the cajones to move it to the Senate floor despite all of the talk and buzz. Our Obozo could improve the economy instantaneously by simply resigning and getting out of the way. Talk about an immediate boost in consumer confidence and uptick in the Univ. of Michigan Sentiment Index! How a community organizer (with a SSN that does not pass E-Verify and is inconsistent with his supposed origin (numerically as SSNs are organized)) is qualified to lead a country without ever earning a paycheck from the private sector is beyond me. If He is the answer, how stupid was the question? And if you believe shale oil is destroying the countryside, please show me the scandalous pictures MSNBC et. al. missed. Thanks in advance.