Consider that we in the US have some 2,000 Tcf (trillion cubic feet). JP Morgan energy analysts suggest that figure is closer to 4,000 Tcf. At current usage rates that 2,000 Tcf is enough nat gas to last over 100 future years. If we converted our transportation systems to compressed natural gas (CNG), we could operate on it for at least the next 50 years –that’s 5 decades or 2 future generations. And during that future period certainly our scientists and engineers can develope, perfect and commercialize the ultimate and virtually inexhaustible national/world energy source.
Whether its solar, wind, fusion, geothermal, ocean currents, biomass, etc or a combination of these potential solutions, it’s a doable project.

America needs an interim, short term solution other than continuing our devastating dependency and addiction to crude oil —a commodity that we do not have in anywhere near the equivalent energy reserves we have in American natural gas.
It comes down to deciding if we want to utilize a purely American commodity versus continuing to rely on a world commodity tightly and monopolistically controlled by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries –the hated world oil dictators of OPEC. Our OPEC “friends” are literally bankrupting this nation as we now annually send 450 billion dollars to their —not our—world petroleum market.

This is absurd; it’s an economic insanity and a national ruination. Just consider that the US military and the United States Navy in particular, is primarily responsible for enabling OPEC to send its crude throughout the world. Our navy protects those international shipping lanes that all crude tankers use. (Various experts suggest that there is some $2.00 to $5.00 or more in national defense costs attached to each and every gallon of gasoline or diesel fuel Americans purchase —that $3.65 gasoline is actually costing American taxpayers possibly double the pump price in national defense costs alone!

As nat gas is a vastly superior internal combustion engine fuel than either gasoline or diesel, it has enormous mechanical and environmental attributes over those crude derivatives. With considerably cleaner emmissions it heightens air quality over them as well.

But the overriding reason for utilizing American natural gas in our transportation system is the simple fact that it is ours. By doing so we can materially reduce that annual outflow of some 450 billion dollars each year to the world oil market. By keeping much of that massive amount of national wealth here in our nation, it has the opportunity to provide a superior mode of mobility and allow that money to circulate and multiply the enormous economic benenefit it represents to virtually every aspect of our economy. It would have the real economic potential to add some trillion or more dollars to the American econonomy each year that we now are getting only a single use from –Hauling ourselves, goods and services from Point A to Point B that costs us 450 billion dollars and then is lost to the “OPEC marketeers”. (With much of it ultimately used to fund worldwide terrorism.)

If we could design, build and deliver an atomic bomb in less than 5 years and send and return a man tot he moon in less tha 8 years, certainly this nation is capable of transitioning our transportation system(s) to one fueled by an abundant, clean, cheap and American energy source, American natural gas as well.