Considering with Shale the US has the most natural gas in the world this would hurt Alberta. India has been moving away from diesel to natural to help with their air quality issues. Iran is moving away from oil to natural gas. Natural gas is 30% cleaner than diesel and 50% cleaner than coal. Although the US hasn't had an energy policy in 40 years they have the solution to their transporation fuel issues in their own back yard. When Obama was elected he said within 10 years the US would not import oil from the middle east and the US can effectively tell them to kiss my gas. The perception is that the US gets so much oil from the middle east but it is only 10% of their imports and China is much more dependent on the middle east importing 6 to 7 times more. Not sure how quickly this will change though.......there is over 12 million vehicles in the world today burning natural gas and only 130,000 are in the US....
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