Recommendations: The Fight Over Using Natural Gas for Transportation

NATURAL GAS FUELING STATION

This is a Clean Energy natural gas fueling station in Boise, Idaho. Clean Energy claims that it is the largest provider of natural gas fuel for transportation in North America, fueling over 35,000 vehicles each day at approximately 500 fueling stations throughout the United States and Canada. Its major shareholder is T. Boone Pickens, the Texas Billionaire who is an outspoken proponent on using natural gas for transportation. There are more pictures and information on this report's companion web site at natgas-rpt.com.

FOREWORD

By Charles Hoppins*

Jerry Fenning is the author of this report. As of April 2014, he has spent two years investigating the advantages and disadvantages of using natural gas for transportation. He feels passionately about the need for this country to convert to natural gas to fuel the nation's trucks. In this report, he outlines his recommendations to accomplish this and provides further data to support his positions.

Fenning is a man with a multi-prong mission of improving America’s economy, decreasing air pollution, avoiding climate change, and decreasing the importation of oil from the Middle East. His main tool in accomplishing this ambitious agenda is to increase the use of natural gas for truck transportation. The effect of this, he says, is to keep billions of dollars in circulation in this country instead of being shipped to the Middle East, stop America’s funding of terrorism, clean up the air by limiting the use of diesel and gasoline, and create hundreds of thousands of jobs. There could also be downward pressure on the price of gasoline and diesel at the pump due to competition from natural gas. Substantially lower prices in oil won’t occur as long as it maintains its worldwide monopoly as a transportation fuel.

He is the main author of the investigative report, How America Can Stop Importing Foreign Oil & Those Preventing It From Happening which is available in both print and ebook editions. Another report, The Fight Over Using Natural Gas for Transportation: The Antagonists, is only available in an ebook edition and can be downloaded to most electronic readers. Preliminary price is 99 cents.

Fenning has definite opinions about how the fight over using natural gas for transportation should proceed. His opinions expressed in this report are his own and do not necessarily reflect the position of Western Research Institute.

* Charles Hoppins is editor of this report

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THIRD REPORT: OPINION

RECOMMENDATIONS

THE FIGHT OVER USING

NATURAL GAS FOR

TRANSPORTATION:

By Jerry Fenning

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 2. HEALTH HAZARDS

CHAPTER 3. RECOMMENDATIONS LIST

CHAPTER 4. FIRST RECOMMENDATION

CHAPTER 5. SECOND RECOMMENDATION

CHAPTER 6. RECOMMENDATIONS 3 TO 6

CHAPTER 7. INTERFAITH POLICY

CHAPTER 8. SEVENTH RECOMMENDATION

CHAPTER 9. SAUDI ARABIA IN U.S.

APPENDIX I. END NOTES

APPENDIX II. WHO REPORT

APPENDIX III. NON-REGULATED POLUTANTS

APPENDIX IV.SHALE FIELDS

APPENDIX V. CSSD

APPENDIX VI COST OF IMPORTS

APPENIX VII. SENATE VOTE

APPENDIX VIII. DEFINITION OF TERMS

APPENDIX IX. WESTERN RESEARCH

APPENDIX X. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

As previously stated, this report is a sequel and supplement to two previous reports: How America Can Stop Importing Foreign Oil & Those Preventing It From Happening and The Fight Over Using Natural Gas for Transportation: The Antagonists. The former is a book-sized report by Jerry Fenning and Charles Hoppins and was published in 2012. It is a presentation of facts about converting to natural gas as a fuel for transportation. It can be purchased either in a print edition at book stores or in an ebook edition formatted for various ebook readers.

It deals with oil companies, the commodity markets, the problems of terrorism, pollution, climate change, transfer of wealth, natural gas discoveries, drilling and fracking and all the other problems involved in converting to natural gas.

As stated in the 2012 book, research is ongoing and consists of updates and supplements which are posted on the book’s companion web site. The companion web site for all three books is natgas-rpt.com. Reports are compiled under the auspices of Western Research Institute, Inc. Web site of WRI is wrii.org. Full URL is http://wikiwacky.net\wrii. (Some web browsers such as Google Chrome divert abbreviated web addresses to Google supported web sites.)

The first report was informational about the advantages of converting to natural gas for transportation. The second report, entitled The Fight Over Using Natural Gas for Transportation: The Antagonists, is really a supplement to the first book and identifies those preventing the conversion to natural gas for transportation and other obstacles that stand in the way of progress.

America has huge reserves of natural gas, enough to take care of the country’s energy needs for the rest of this century and more. Only a few other countries have more reserves than are found in the United States.

There is a massive drilling campaign underway within the continental U.S resulting from discovery of new shale oil fields or plays and the development of horizontal drilling techniques and fracturing. This has resulted in the production of more natural gas than the country can currently use.

Switching to natural gas to fuel medium and heavy duty trucks will contribute to putting thousands of people to work, placing extra dollars in every motorist’s pocket and keeping hundreds of billions of dollars in circulation in America instead of being sent overseas.

The United States is in position to greatly reduce its dependence on imported oil outside of North America, to decrease the amount of smog and pollution, resulting from the exhaust of diesel and gasoline powered trucks, and to obtain relief from high diesel and gasoline prices. All the country needs to do is change to natural gas to power its buses, trucks, and trains.

In the third chapter, seven recommendations are listed which, in the author's opinion, will help achieve the objectives outlined above. The following four chapters set forth data to support the author's recommendations and explain further how the recommendations can be implemented. In Chapter 7 is a policy statement by the Interfaith Sustainability Council of the Pomona Valley (ISCPV) situated in Southern California. This is a local organization composed of members from ten Protestant, Catholic and Jewish congregations and from four community groups. It represents the author's efforts in securing support of his recommendations from other entities such as cities, counties, state legislatures, universities, schools, hospitals and other government agencies.

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CHAPTER 2

HEALTH HAZARDS

Multiple effects from oil and diesel consumption involve health issues from pollution at low altitudes and climate change at high altitudes. The proposed policy in promoting alternative fuels for trucks is an extension of the same rationale that was successfully used to restrict cigarette smoking by educational, medical and other institutions in order to improve the health of their students, patients and staff. The cigarette ban also served as a role model for students and the general public to improve their lifestyles.

A scientific connection had to be proven between health hazards such as cancer and cardiopulmonary diseases to personal consumption of cigarettes and second hand smoke within enclosed spaces. It took many years of controversy but finally society was convinced that innocent people who had no intention of smoking were contracting serious illnesses. The tobacco industry was successful in delaying the sanctions and warnings for many years but this special interest lobby was eventually overpowered. The earth’s atmosphere is analogous to an enclosed space where many types of pollutants via oil and diesel exhaust remain for long periods of time at low and high altitudes.

The phasing out of cigarette smoking provides a precedent for society to do the same with diesel exhaust. Natural gas serves as a bridge fuel for powering trucks until other alternatives are developed.

WHO & IARC

In a news release dated March 25,