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The Current Stagnation of Natural Gas Vehicles in America

Good article and interesting short term plan. To me there are still several drawbacks that you missed. Why put in a network of stations if it s short term? Why not just go to hydrogen? While a 30% reduction in CO2 is ok its not enough. We need the 80% that Fuel Cells can provide. Also the effeciency of an NGV is significantly less than gasoline. What about the imnpurity (sulfur) in the current miles of pipeline is not easily removed so some work is required to make all that pipeline useable. The last question is will the consumer pay for even a slight engine hardening cost if the cost per mile is less, to date no.

The Gas Price Roller-Coaster: It’s Not an Amusement Park Ride

The other big flaw in the article is that burning natural gas does not significantly reduce green house gas emissions. From Los Alamos National Lab report it makes way more sense to turn NG into hydrogen and use it in fuel cells to get a 60% reduction. Thats where your real clean fuel pathway lies. We can't afford to change the infrastructure twice, lets go to hydrogen and get on with it already. How much did T Boone pay you for this article?