It is still a start. No, one strategy should be used. Natural gas has not gone up in Europe, and you still have to remember that we can produce our own. What other opritunities are there for mass transit??? I do agree with you that we need other technology but not in the transportation sector. Natural Gas hybrid is were it is at.
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The United States can't become energy-independent in that period. But the administration could set goals for reducing oil imports over the first 6, 12, 18 and 24 months.
They'll likely be reached in only one way: by switching commercial vehicles from gasoline and diesel to natural gas.
Additional oil drilling will not get us there. The easy oil has already been recovered. The amount of oil left to be drilled in Alaska and off all the coasts of the United States will not make a dent in America's energy needs, which are about 21 million barrels per day.
But thanks to new technologies for natural-gas recovery, the United States has a supply that should last more than 100 years. Add Canada's reserves, and the number goes higher. Domestic oil supplies may be decreasing, but North America enjoys an increasing abundance of natural gas.
The trick is figuring out how to capitalize on it.
The first question I am asked when I give speeches on using natural gas to replace America's need for foreign oil is, what kind of infrastructure will be required to provide fuel to the country's tens of millions of automobiles?
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