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Originally Posted by Beestie
While true, its quite a bit better than petroleum-based fuels.
Natural gas versus gasoline as a vehicle fuel: - Reduces carbon monoxide emissions 90%-97%
- Reduces carbon dioxide emissions 25%
- Reduces nitrogen oxide emissions 35%-60%
- Potentially reduces non-methane hydrocarbon emissions 50%-75%
- Emits fewer toxic and carcinogenic pollutants
- Emits little or no particulate matter
- Eliminates evaporative emissions
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The major problem lies with availability and depletion of supplies in Gulf of Mexico and Texas - even the Canadian supplies are dubious. Exploration of National Gas sources is still tricky and supplies harder to find.
More importantly historically the National Gas industry could never find a way stabilize prices, or control them... with very little reserves and difficulty in maintaining reserves I can't see how an energy policy reliant on National Gas would be stabilize economically.
It could though act as part of a short term energy policy, though.