Why? The plants that produce the electricity used in a hybrid
must burn oil, coal, or use a nuclear reaction to provide it.
CNG comes from the ground and is easier to drill for than oil,
so does not impact the Earth as much during extraction. A CNG
vehicle’s carbon footprints is the size of an ant’s next to a
hybrid’s. The Civic Natural Gas vehicle is the cleanest-running
internal combustion engine ever certified by the Environmental
Protection Agency. What about fuel economy you may ask. How
about a Honda Civic that offers 38 mpg and 240 miles between
fill ups? Not bad at all. Then there is the time it takes to
refuel. Minutes for a CNG Civic. How many hours for your plug-in
hybrid or EV? Hours, isn’t it? Now the other shoe falls. There
is a decided lack of infrastructure for the CNG Civic. Refueling
stations are rare, even more rare than commercial recharge
stations for electric vehicles. A CNG refueling point costs more
to install than a traditional gas station, as well. The federal
government is consideri