Make natural gas our main fuel

Bill Brzezinski, North Las Vegas

Monday, May 24, 2010 | 2:04 a.m.

Remember when the government decided to change over to unleaded gasoline? It picked a date and made the car manufacturers and oil companies comply with the plan.

Now it is time to do something like this again. We could sit around and dither over what type of ecologically advanced car should be “the one,” but in the meantime, what should happen is the government should mandate that by July 1, 2018, all new vehicles sold in the United States have a minimum capability of using natural gas for fuel.

You may scoff at the ability of the government to get this done, but the ability of car manufacturers to build this type of vehicle already exists. Also, fuel stations already carry natural gas.

What are the benefits?

• No more dependence on foreign oil, except for lubrication — in other words, down about 98 percent in usage.

• No more price gouging by OPEC.

• Time for us to develop future energy-independent technology to better fuel our vehicles.

• We have plenty of natural gas and can stop this nonsense about using corn or other garbage.

We need this and we can get it done. The sooner we get started, the sooner we start saving money on fuel, and the sooner we stop subsidizing the terrorists who are getting part of their funding from the oil profits in the Middle East.