Cheap Fracked Gas Could Help Americans Keep on Truckin'

Monday, April 23, 2012 - 06:30 in Physics & Chemistry

A different kind of truck stop is coming soon to Atlanta. Greg Roche, vice president for infrastructure at Clean Energy Fuels , is presently scouting locations to build one of the California-based company's natural gas fueling stations for long-haul trucks by the end of this year. With fracking techniques freeing more and more natural gas in the U.S., the alternative fuel is suddenly much cheaper than those made from petroleum. [More]

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