The problem with CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) is it contains much less energy even than propane. My wife used to be the service supervisor at the local gas company here and they had the city buses, all the gas trucks and several other vehicles running on both gas/diesel or CNG. The range on CNG was very short becuase it took a huge fiberglass reinforced tank to hold even a quarter of what diesel or gasoline would be required to go X miles so they had to have both fuels on board. They finally abandoned the project.
But natural gas would be great to replace some of the high oxide goal burning electrical utilities. I think placing wind generators around Washington DC would allow us to power the whole country with the hot air generated out of there.
T. Boone Pickens has also purchased a large part of the Olagala aquifer that runs from north Texas way up into the great plains. He says that is where the real shortages will occur-water-and the real money will be made. In Texas you can sell the water under your property ??!! That law doesn't make sense to me but I would never bet against Pickens.
Except that is, for the money he has put into the Oklahoma State football team. Hook em!
