Recommendations: The Fight Over Using Natural Gas for Transportation
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The object of the Recommendations in this report is to decrease air pollution, avoid climate change, decrease the importation of oil from the Middle East and to attack the monopoly of oil as a transportation fuel. According to the author, this agenda can be accomplished by substantially increasing the use of natural gas for truck transportation. The effect will be 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.
The data-based recommendations described in the text will greatly increase the adoption rate of natural gas trucks in America and will enable our country to become more energy independent, wealthier and healthier. The proposed policy will also result in less financial backing of terrorism, religious intolerance and oppression of women emanating from the Middle East and North African regions.
The material could be used as marketing and sales techniques for the natural gas and transportation industries. Everyone should become more aware of how to utilize America’s newly developed natural gas formations.
Responsibility is stressed for local leadership to follow through with the recommendations rather than rely on the intractable gridlock that exists in Congress. Educational, medical and governmental agencies need to read the book and follow through with the recommendations. Union members, warehouse workers, and trucking staff in general will have great interest in the making their work places safer. Every Office of Sustainability should definitely become knowledgeable of the information in the text because of its beneficial impact on the environment both at low and high altitudes.
It is essential that America ramps up demand for natural gas in our transportation sector before this precious resource is shipped overseas. Otherwise, our nation will be left with the worse nightmare of using the more expensive gasoline and diesel fuels while our economic and political competitors possess the less costly natural gas. For example, Iran is using natural gas as their transportation fuel of choice within their country but exporting the more profitable oil.
The controversial issue of hydraulic fracking is met head on with a sensible and more secure approach in resolving the environmental problems. For instance, most Americans are unaware that waterless fracking procedures are available in drilling in shale formations. Read and become more informed.
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Recommendations - Jerry Fenning
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
There is much supplemental information relative to this report on various web sites on the internet. In addition the End Notes are somewhat voluminous. A companion web site has been set up to provide readers with quick access to this information. In addition to the End Notes, the companion web site includes maps, exhibits, colored pictures, documents and graphs. The address of this companion web site is natgas-rpt.com.
The full URL is http://www.wikiwacky.net/wrii/gasact01. To directly access the end notes to this report on the companion web site, go to End Notes. If you are using an ebook reader such as a nook, the best way to follow this report, on the Internet is to use an additional device such as a computer or tablet. This will provide a seamless access to relevant additional information without having to depart from the text on your ebook reader.
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,