on Compressed Natural Gas?

Just curious.

I keep seeing Aubrey McLendon with these PSA thingies (or whatever they are) and was just curious.

It's funny you should ask. I only heard of it the other day. Not sure why that is because generally I pay attention to the alternative fuel articles. And husband who usually pays more attention than I do was also in the dark. As far as speaking for all libs, of course I can't do that. And I really don't know enough to make a judgment on it. I do think something needs to be done to get the northeast converted from oil furnaces to natural gas heating. In the meantime, as soon as I get some time, I will read up and get back to you.

BTW. What do you think?

I am amazed that I hadn't heard about this until lately. It's obviously happening in places all around the world. I see no big obvious problem with it right now. In fact, I'm not sure why it hasn't been pushed more than it has. I love the idea of filling up at home. As for the drilling, I think that is another problem. I suspect that there are already enough leases available to cover us for a long time. And as long as the drilling is done on existing leaseholds then go for it. Here is the wiki link. Compressed natural gas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Not educated enough on this to make a totally informed position statement.

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I don't really know what I think, but I'm very curious.

The man in the PSA's is CEO of the company we sold my dad's company to after his death. Since that time that company has done well - they've really grown and they've been very good to my hometown since taking up residence in Dad's old offices (which they outgrew, and now they're in a new facility they built). I know that people feel that his company is well-run, they pay their workers very well, etc.

So given that history, I was very surprised to see him on tv! The plan he's pushing - the Boone Pickins plan - is interesting to me. My family is going to hear Pickins speak at a dinner this weekend and they're very curious about what he has to say.

Both of them are oil men... but if you're an oil man you're probably also a gas man because typically a hole that has one also has the other. In other words... they certainly don't stand to lose anything, business-wise, if the US converts completely to natural gas. However, my personal experience with that particular individual is positive and that does make me less cynical about them just having an ulterior motive in wanting to sell gas. Pickins' plan has a big shift to wind, as well, and that's something a topsoil owner - rather than a mineral owner - would benefit from, which is a whole new ballgame.

In the area of my hometown people have been going around wanting to lease the rights to stick a windmill on people's land, just like they do with oil leases... paying to reserve the right to stick one there at some point in the next ten years, just like one would do with drilling rights.

I told DH last night that it sounds good (the CNG thing) but until it's readily available, I certainly wouldn't take out on vacation in a vehicle that was going to need some CNG down the road.

I believe there is considerably more natural gas available within the US than oil, so that's a positive.... but it would still require drilling, and those who are eco-serious might not like that. A rig is a rig, no matter what it's looking for down there, ya know? That's why I wondered if the environmentalist position would be against CNG, simply because of concern over the impact of increased drilling.