1) Infrastructure. It would take a decade (at a minumum) to change over our refueling stations.

2) Safety. Most current CNG and Propane driven vehicles on the road today are vans and trucks owned by fleets. They have expensive "safety cages" around the tanks to protect them in case of an accident. I don't see a small car being a viable choice for a CNG tank – especially if it gets hit by an SUV. Can you say "BOOM" ?

Also, global warming is a hoax and Cap & Trade is just an energy tax. The problem is that the entitlement groups could care less because it isn't their money our government is spending.

This President has had enough time to prove what he his and what he will do. Get him out of there now! Remove his political bagmen and cronies in every off year election begining now.

thank you very much

Actually, wind power can never replace coal fired power. Wind farms supply usable power at a 30% efficiency, in other words, for one third of the year. Coal fired power hums along 24/7/365.

For one large coal fired plant of 2000MW nameplate capacity, to supply the same power used in one year,(around 16.3 Billion KWH) you would need 2,200 towers each topped with a large 3MW nacelle, standing 385 feet tall with 440 feet to top of the blade tip. Using Cape Wind as an example, that facility costing $1.2 Billion for 140 towers, the cost for 2200 towers would be around $20 Billion.

It would take 10 to 12 years to construct, providing there is a huge build up of the work force to construct the nacelles. Then you have the problem of infrastructure to connect that vast area of coverage to the grid, around 100 square miles if they are placed close together, and in an area where there is a regular 16MPH wind blowing.

This is for one large coal fired power plant. There are around 120 to 150 of them in the U.S, and around 600 to 700 coal fired plants of all sizes in all, with nearly 1500 generators.

On top of that, with wind power you only get electrical power for 30% of the time.

A coal fired plant has twice the life expectancy of a wind plant, and the ability for its operation to be extended for a further 25 years on top of the average 50 year operational life span.

The only way wind power can be feasible is if there are huge Government subsidies at the construction end, and also at the supply power to the grid stage where the cost of the generated electricity is around seven times higher than it is for coal fired power, and the cheapest power of all, that being supplied by nuclear power plants.

The mad rush to wind power is lunacy on a huge scale.

Sorry to take so much space.

Tony.

We, the States, have to take back our own power though the 10th Amendment! We need to keep near to our hearts the 2nd Amendment, fore it was designed for just such times as these; To protct ourselves from our own Federal Government! It has always been easy to blame others for our problems, but that time has to stop, and that time is now! We have to take responsibility for what is happening to our beloved Nation. We have to take every concievable legal action to end the current blastphemy against our own Bill of Rights and our very own Constitution! Read them! Believe in them! Teach them to everyone and stand for nothing less than complete obediance from those we elect to represent us!

Hozro