Benefits of Natural Gas Vehicles
Environment Benefits
- Use of natural gas as a fuel of vehicles result in reduced emissions and improved local air quality
- Natural gas has lower greenhouse gas emissions than liquid fuels vehicles
National Benefits
Use of natural gas in the transportation sector will:
- Reduce national demand and oil dependency
- Improve national balance of payments by reducing the need for imported oil
- Improve energy choice flexibility
- Improve national security of energy supply
- Improve economic stability (dampen oil price)
- Make use of renewal energy (bio-methane)
- Reduce greenhouse gas emissions
- Reduce harmful vehicle emissions that cause local air pollution