http://www.autoblog.com/2011/09/10/f...on-across-u-s/

The next time you hail a cab in Southern California, you could be jumping into a vehicle fueled by clean-burning compressed natural gas (CNG). That's because California Yellow Cab of Orange County has become the state's first taxi company to put CNG-fueled Ford Transit Connect vans into service. California Yellow Cab says 10 (and soon more than 120) natural gas Connects are on the roads and ready to pick up passengers in the greater Los Angeles area.

Meanwhile, over in Chicago, Taxi Medallion Management says it has a dozen Ford Transit Connect CNG taxis in service. And in Connecticut, two cab companies are waiting for Ford to fulfill orders for 70 CNG-fueled Transit Connect taxis.

Later on, CNG-fueled Transits will ship out to Las Vegas and St. Louis. Philadelphia is expected to get in on the CNG action, too, once city officials approve natural gas vehicles for taxi duty.

 

Natural gas is gradually becoming a more prominent petroleum alternative in the US, our reserves in gas are fairly abundant and the environmental impact of harvesting it is less than that of oil.

 

Many cars here in Serbia run on natural gas. My cousin has an old Volvo 340 that runs on the natural gas. It smells pretty bad and his car is really underpowered, but here in Serbia natural gas is about 50% cheaper than gasoline so it pays off.