It’s clean and it’s cheap, so why not use it? That’s the question that has to be asked about natural gas, which has gone largely unnoticed and under-utilized as a vehicle fuel. But that may be changing. A company called Hybrid Fuel Systems has launched a new system designed to convert truck and bus diesels to natural gas.

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“As truckers and bus operators throughout the world realize that high diesel fuel prices are here to stay, people are looking for practical systems to reduce diesel fuel costs without replacing Read more . . .

Soon you might fill up your car’s fuel tank right in your own garage. And the fuel won’t be gasoline, but natural gas. So you can smell something new is in the air.

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Lost in the shuffle in the media hype about alternative vehicle fuels is natural gas. But natural gas burns so clean and emission-free that the Environmental Protection Agency has labeled the U.S.-made Honda Civic GX the “cleanest internal combustion engine-powered vehicle ever tested.” Read more . . .