Natural gas powered cars aren’t exactly popular right now, what with the lack of CNG fueling stations and all.  Even in the parts of the United States where there is a higher than average density of CNG fueling stations (what’s up with Oklahoma?!), you’re going to have to think ahead a bit more about when you fill up.  Here’s the CNG Now! website where you can find public CNG stations.  You’ll see that there just aren’t that many of them.  Part of the reason for that is that very little CNG is used to fuel vehicles.  The Alternative Fuels Data Center states that 0.1 percent of all natural gas is used to run vehicles.

However, they are becoming more common.

With that in mind, Ford has stepped up it’s game and is again offering a variant of the F-150 that will run on CNG.  It also runs on some other things, but we’re not terribly concerned with that here.  It would be great if more vehicles ran on natural gas.  Natural gas burns cleaner than gasoline and we have loads of the stuff in the ground.  If you’re in a position to buy a CNG vehicle, we encourage you to do so.