Natural Gas Vehicles
Aubrey McClendon, the chairman and CEO of Chesapeake Energy in Oklahoma City, was at the National Press Club and on Capitol Hill yesterday to promote more useage of natural gas, including in the transportation sector.
McClendon is also founder and chairman of the American Clean Skies Foundation, which is amassing and distributing information related to natural gas.
According to McClendon, there are about 8 million vehicles in the world running on compressed natural gas.
The U.S. ranks eighth in the world, with 146,876 natural gas vehicles. Which country ranks 1st?
Argentina … with 1.65 million.
Second is Pakistan, with 1.55 million, followed by Brazil, with 1.4 million and Italy, with 432,900. Rounding out the top five is India, with 334,820.
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Aubrey McClendon can’t say it. Neither can T Boone Pickens. But I can. We have two oilmen in the White House and they have suppressed all competition to oil. They wiped out all mandates for alternative fuels and yanked the hybrid electric program from the Big Three automakers who were making progress on 70 mpg diesel/electic hybrids. We must elect someone who doesn’t believe in drilling in our backyards and public beaches for oil. Rather someone who wants to cut oil use by 50 percent with natural gas, propane, hydrogen and electric hybrids. And stop polluting the air we breathe. There are other ways to power our cars than petrol which does not combust very efficiently and pours tons of toxins into the air.