While the media have been whining and handwringing about fracking, nuclear, peak oil et c. stockpiles of natural gas have been filling up; now there’s a glut, prices are crashing, we can’t export the stuff easily. WHY ARE WE NOT USING IT? To fuel our cars, for example. We’ve known this was going to happen for twenty years! Remember T. Boone Pickens? LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) conversion kits for our cars were available twenty years ago, and some friends converted their cars and bragged about how cheaply they ran and how clean – exhausting only water vapor and CO2. Where are the LNG pumps at every gas station that should be there by now – we’ve had twenty years! Is this another “The oil companies killed it” story? ‘cuz they are cleaning our clocks right now, and speculators are walking away with the millions we sink into our gas tanks, none of which would be happening if we could fill up with LNG for about a buck fifty a gallon. Why do we get all the pain, and none of the gain? Where is the freakin leadership??? We The People have to take the reins! LNG tanks in America’s cars could wipe out this recession in a matter of months. Really. First, the savings. Then, the death of oil speculators.Then, the startup companies to manufacture the infrastructure, and the hope and enthusiasm revived. Do the math.



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Are you kidding? Our leaders have only our best interests at heart so they realize that people would have a hard time converting from real gasoline to something that is so unfamiliar. Anyway, that stuff is so cold; it would be a threat to careless people. I just hope that we continue the oil company subsidy and the leadership of stalwarts such as bp, shell, texaco (or whatever it is pumping its effluent into the headwaters of the Amazon) and other oil companies are left to their unregulated lives.
You want your gas? You want your water contaminated with benzene, toluene, and other toxic compounds? Your want your county roads ruined from 18 wheelers delivering fracking waters? You want your air polluted from open evaporative chemical ponds? You want your municipal waste dump to try and process the waste waters? You want radium filled brine used to deice your winter roads? You want your agricultural lands polluted and your animala sick and dying?
You want “your” gas? Go to Nigeria. It is still like the Wild, Wild West there with no regulations.
No, I don’t want those things, but those things are here, we got them whether we want them or not. The cruelty of the mighty will not relent unless we confront it, and I’ll stand with you and get my head cracked and my eyeballs seared with pepper spray when the time comes. One problem at a time. All things equal, what would you rather I put in my tank (I’m certain you don’t own a car): gas, or gasoline?