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To: Alighieri who wrote (647272)	3/8/2012 4:39:21 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1570501

Here are some reasons that U.S. buyers have been slow to adopt natural-gas vehicles: _ Lack of fueling stations. There are around 1,000 natural-gas fueling stations in the U.S., but only half of them are open to the public. Most are operated by local governments or private companies to refuel buses and other fleet vehicles. California-based Clean Energy Fuels Corp., a natural gas provider backed by oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens, is planning a big expansion. It aims to install natural-gas pumps at 150 truck stops nationwide over the next few years. But that pales in comparison to the availability of gasoline, which is sold at 117,000 stations in the U.S. That's why natural gas is still primarily relegated to fleets, which can return to a central refueling station. Filling up at a CNG station is just like pumping gasoline, although the fuel is a highly-compressed gas, not a liquid. CLNE has, OWN ITS OWN, undertaken to create the "Natural Gas Highway" -- putting LNG (not CNG) stations across the country. Of course, they would like to have the government give them a few Solyndra-like subsidies, but they're doing it WITHOUT it. Why? Because of market forces. CLNE stands to gain and they know it. CHK stands to gain and they know it. This has happened within only a FEW years of the development of technologies to extract massive quantities of shale gas. Markets work, consistently. Government fails, consistently.