America is sitting on reserves of 2 quadrillion cubic feet of natural gas (the website NG video is 6:46), according to T. Boone Pickens. Natural gas powered buses are in service now--96 percent of Fort Worth's buses run on it, and DC has 164 NG buses. One garbage truck converted from diesel to NG is the equivalent of taking 325 cars off the road. There are 10M NG vehicles in the world but only 142,000 in America. Pickens calls NG a "bridge" fuel until electric power takes over, but says we can free ourselves from foreign oil dependence in 30 years. Sarah Palin visited Pickens--video (1:00); Boone said Palin knows a lot about energy.

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