Utah America’s Natural Gas Vehicle Homeland: Gentiles, Start Your Engines!
It’s not the least-polluting vehicle fuel out there but there’s a lot of it, it works, and it’s a lot cheaper than gasoline. Utah has more natural gas-running vehicles than any state per capita, mostly because we have a lot of it here and the state legislature and corporate superstructure are all invested heavily in fossil fuels. Most environmentalists, including me, are for it but are stronger advocates of electric cars, biodiesel and sustainable fuels. Natural gas is plentiful and cheap- but it has a finite supply. Not a bad stop-gap though. It’d be especially great if people would convert their stupid ATVs and ORVs to run on it. Then drive out to the California desert to play in that sand box instead of ripping up what’s left of Utah’s pristine wilderness.