With all this natural gas, who needs oil?
It's home-grown, plentiful, and touted as the best way to wean the US off Mideast oil. But there are limits to how far the US can tilt toward a natural gas economy.
By Alexandra Marks, Correspondent / April 22, 2012
This is the cover story in the April 23 edition of The Christian Science MonitorWeekly.
John Kehe/Staff
Pembroke, Mass.
Bob Mann leans against his wife's 2006 Volkswagen Jetta in his tool-packed garage. The mechanic and inventor has just converted the car, which is the color of a ripe crab apple, to run on natural gas. He shakes his head.
- Graphic: US natural gas production, 1990-2035
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- Graphic: Where natural gas-powered vehicles can be found
- •(Source:Gas Vehicle Report/Graphic:Rich Clabaugh/Staff)
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- Graphic: US shale gas fields
- •(Source:US Energy Information Admin./Graphic:Rich Clabaugh/Staff)
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"It's a no-brainer. We could jump-start the economy overnight, put 100,000 people to work – easy – and help the environment," says Mr. Mann, a former Volkswagen technician who's as comfortable talking about global energy solutions as he is around a socket wrench.
To read the entire article go to: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2012/0422/With-all-this-natural-gas-who-needs-oil
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