Let’s start by running government-owned trucks on natural gas or its derivatives instead of oil and then include more types of vehicles. The M.I.T. Energy Initiative recently released a report identifying methanol as the fuel “most efficiently and inexpensively produced from natural gas,” costing around $3 per gallon today.
Natural gas can also help run the electricity grid. Yes, natural gas is a dirty fossil fuel, but it’s cleaner than coal, and, we need all the energy we can get to meet rising needs.
