I already hated Newt, and knew he was an idiot, but to see this being pushed at a time when drilling offshore is simply not needed due to the recent advances in onshore Shale Drilling like the Barnett Shale in Texas.

There have also been numerous other recently announced shale deposits that covers most of the east coast there simply is very little reason to assume the dangers of drilling off shore are still needed.

try to read a little about natural gas and recent developments in the last decade before being drawn into a political debate by the likes of Newt Gingrich who very seldom has an intelligent thought, or one that benefits anyone outside his home state of Georgia.

I suspect the point you were trying to make is that unlike Oil which takes much longer that methane it can be produced from recent deposits of materials such as the methane produced by landfills that are years old instead of centuries old. The “Landfill Gas” has only recently been directed toward power production as in decades past it was simply burned or “flared” to the atmosphere without using the heat it produces for electricity generation.

The point you make about the testing of the tanks does tend to imply that once that hurdle to alternative automobiles is accomplished very little change would need to be made to use Hydrogen as a fuel so this accomplishes the shorter term goal as well as it enables the infrastructure for the longer term goal of Hydrogen to be accomplished ahead of the actual supply issues being accomplished.

It should also be noted that longer term most places where Methane is used a Hydrogen fuel could be easily adapted for usage so any methane work is certainly not wasted, but merely a transitional fuel that is Domestically sourced until we can establish a Hydrogen Infrastructure.