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UPDATE…PRESIDENT OBAMA URGES PASSAGE OF NAT GAS ACT

Posted on April 1, 2011

Washington, D.C. (April 1, 2011)–President Obama’s call this week for the passage of the NAT GAS Act as part of his new federal energy blueprint, is a call to action for supporters of compressed natural gas vehicles. According to the President: “Last year, more than 150 Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle proposed legislation providing incentives to use clean-burning natural gas in our vehicles instead of oil. They were even joined by T. Boone Pickens, a businessman who made his fortune on oil. So I ask them to keep at it.”

“With the increasing price of gasoline, natural gas is an important domestic fuel at our disposal that can replace foreign oil to power heavy-duty fleet vehicles. Converting heavy-duty trucks and high-fuel use commercial fleet vehicles to natural gas can reduce our OPEC dependence now while we wait for technology to power the vehicles of tomorrow,” said T. Boone Pickens.

Increased use of natural gas will not only reduce our dependence on foreign oil while also reducing greenhouse gases and air pollution, while saving consumers and fleets money.

Last year, natural gas vehicles displaced 360 million gallons of petroleum in the U.S. With encouragement and incentives from the federal government, this could grow to 1.6 billion gallons by 2015.

The NAT GAS Act, which was introduced in the last Congress, would provide incentives for using natural gas in vehicles, purchasing NGVs, installing natural gas refueling stations and producing natural gas vehicles in America. U.S. Rep. John Sullivan (R-OK) announced this week that the NAT GAS Act of 2011 will be introduced in the current Congress on April 6.


Other NGV-related initiatives called for by the President are:

Leading by Example –With the Federal Fleet calls directing agencies to ensure that, by 2015, all new vehicles purchased for the federal government fleet of 600,000 will be alternative fuel vehicles. The natural gas vehicle industry already produces a wide – and growing — variety of vehicles powered by natural gas for the U.S. market, from a Honda Civic to 18-wheeler tractors.

Developing Alternatives to Oil, Including Biofuels and Natural Gas–Availability of renewable natural gas (or biomethane) which is produced from landfill gas, sewage and animal, crop and industrial waste – could grow quickly here in America with the proper federal governmental support. Biomethane use is rapidly expanding around the world, and has been shown to be the most economic of all biofuels for vehicles.


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