Washington, D.C. - based think tank, Resources for the Future and the National Energy Policy Institute, recently released the findings of its study, Toward a New National Energy Policy: Assessing the Options  focused on strategies to reduce oil consumption in the United States.  While many recent academic works have illustrated the technical possibilities of alternative energy, this study reports on the real action that will make the implementation of these changes possible...

The customer is always right, and it pays to listen. After receiving several requests from their fleet customers, GM announced in May a plan to offer Compressed Natural Gas (CNG)- and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG)-powered versions of the Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana cargo vans.

GM has chosen to offer the Express and the Savana vans for fleets because of their size and function.  Kim Hill, Director of the Sustainable Transportation...

J.P. Morgan recently released a study addressing the current state of the oil and gas sector from an investment perspective. The study revealed that America has 8,000 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.  , and highlighted the developments that have been made throughout the U.S. shale gas industry, as well as those that are still to come. About 25 percent of J.P. Morgan’s resource estimate is economically recoverable at this time.  However, as technology continues to improve, that percentage will increase...

There are currently 4.8 million heavy trucks and 4 million medium trucks on the road in the U.S., consuming a total of 1.9 million barrels of imported oil per day.  Recently, the Center for American Progress (CAP) released a study, "American Fuel: Developing Natural Gas for Heavy Vehicles," addressing this problem with a solution - the development of natural gas as a transportation fuel...

EnCana, one of North America’s largest natural gas companies, is proposing the placement of natural gas fueling stations in Canada -- from the city of Windsor to the Ontario-Quebec boundary -- for the drivers on Canada’s Highway 401. New drilling technologies are successfully retrieving more gas from what was once thought to be inaccessible shale.  Therefore, ample supplies of gas are now available (and will be available well into the future) to serve the transportation market as well as all the traditional gas...

The United States has an abundance of natural gas.  Natural gas is the ideal bridge fuel to the next generation of transportation power fuels.  The technologies currently in development, such as battery operated vehicles and hydrogen fuel cells, may not be ready for years to come and, while they, along with wind and solar power, are America’s ultimate goal, they are not an immediate solution to reduce our reliance on foreign oil.  Natural gas is ready to go today!

 

The United States imported 339 million barrels of foreign oil in the month of November alone. This translates into $26.4 billion that was sent out of our struggling economy and into foreign ones.  With 61% of our monthly oil consumption originating from foreign markets, much of control of the health of our economy is not in our hands.

 

In a recent article in The Guardian, the availability of adequate supplies of oil in the very near future has been called into question by a...

Congressmen Dan Boren (D-OK) and Tim Murphy (R-PA) have united to start the Congressional Natural Gas Caucus, a bipartisan effort to promote awareness of an abundant, low emission energy source. By increasing and expanding the many uses of environmentally-friendly natural gas, America can move toward greater domestic energy independence.  Reps. Boren and Murphy have begun recruiting other members of Congress and discussing ideas with natural gas experts.  Currently the caucus boasts 40 bi-partisan members...