Wells to Wheels: Can shale gas power cars?
Series: Breaking the Land: Marcellus Shale and the Gas Age
From: Reid Frazier
Length: 00:06:57
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We use natural gas to heat our homes and generate our power. Can we use it to fuel our cars? Big Gas thinks shale gas is the key to cleaning up our car-heavy culture. Their emissions may be cleaner, but environmental groups worry that natural gas cars will only mean more fracking.
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HOST: Cars are an indispensable part of modern life—imagine a trip to the store for a big box of diapers without one. But they're also big polluters. Greenhouse gases, smog. These are just some of the byproducts of our car-heavy culture. But some say there is a way to get around cleanly and cheaply. As the Allegheny Front's Reid Frazier found, the answer could be natural gas.
FRAZIER: Meet Joe Lundy. He lives in Fox Chapel, a leafy suburb of Pittsburgh. He's got a wife, two kids, and a few cars. But look a little more closely, actually, just look at what he's doing with his car, and you’ll find, this is no ordinary Joe.
LUNDY: So, I'm going to turn it on and see how long we'll get this to run.
FRAZIER: Joe is fueling up his Honda Civic GX, a car that runs exclusively on natural gas. He's hooked up a hose from a compressor along the side of his house. It takes gas from his utility line...
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