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Ohio Governor John Kasich is asking the governors of Indiana, Michigan and Pennsylvania to join in an initiative to replace each state's fleet with vehicles fueled by compressed natural gas (CNG). CNG-powered vehicles may have the lowest-emissions of any internal combustion, but Kasich has a different kind of green in mind when pitching the idea to his fellow Republican governors. Both Ohio and Pennsylvania have large natural gas deposits and developing them would bring jobs and income to the states. Michigan and Indiana also have natural gas resources within their borders. By banding together, the four states have over 40,000 vehicles in their fleets and Kasich wants to leverage that number to persuade Detroit to produce natural gas-powered vehicles. Currently, Honda is the only manufacturer offering a CNG-fueled passenger car to consumers nationwide: it has sold them to fleet customers since 1998. Ram lists a CNG Hemi as an..

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[tazdevil]

Forget the gas portion of this article. Look at the Two door Charger! Talk about gorgeous!

[John Rogers]

That Charger has four doors.

[CherokeeVision]

I never had a problem with the Charger going to four doors. My problem has always been that the Charger didn't look like the concept.
The replacement for the Caliber has a nice sloped front end. With it coming the front end of the Charger concept could be updated a little and it would be back in style.

[MoparNorm]

Except for the front clip, the 2012 Charger isn't that far off from the concept...
Back on Topic, many municipal fleets in CA are CNG powered.

[Gord Tulk]

My next car is a gasoline-fueled 2012/13 300c AWD. It will likely be the last gasoline fueled vehicle i will own.

NG is the future. Carbon-fiber tanks, NG fuel stroage desgined into the vehicl from the getgo to preserve stowage capacity and an explosion (pardon the pun) of NG fueling stations (Encana is making and now selling Skid-mounted CNG/LNG Pumps that enable filling stations to almost overnight offer those options to their customers. ) will make NG the future we will likely be stampeding to in the next decade.

Price difference between NG and Gasoline: NG is 30% of the costs - taxes in.

And no worries about sludge etc. - NG engines last a very very long time.

Oh, and you can fuel up overnight by hooking up to your homes NG supply.