Shale gas is helping fuel America, but oversight is needed

This quote from the Alaska Dispatch story sums up the roadblock to our improved fuel destiny:

Trucks are the frontier for what should be a bipartisan strategy on gas.
Transportation eats up about 70 percent of petroleum in the US.
But the nation has only about 1,000 filling stations for gas-powered vehicles.
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This is actually not a bad thing, but a good thing. We have pinpointed one of the biggest roadblocks
(excuse the play on words) to taking alternate energy from small scale to a significant contributor
of our fuel needs in America.

While there is heavy criticism of government backing specific firms in energy production, I think they
should offer incentives to fuel providers to outfit existing fill up stations with natural gas pumps. Any
gas station that offers diesel needs to be outfitted with a natural gas filling station.

If 70% of our fuel needs are trucks, I do not see why this would not be a good investment for everyone
Even people who are not in the trucking industry will see less pain at the pump since gasoline has to
compete with natural gas. For the first time in American Transportation history the concept of competition
will be introduced to fuel providers of diesel and gasoline.


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