Natural gas is plentiful throughout the United States and is a clean fuel to burn. Natural gas emits only half as much the carbon dioxide that oil or gasoline does. Also, it emits one fifth the amount of nitrogen oxides and only one percent as much sulfur oxides as coal combustion. A study by the Department of Energy found that if the United States switched from gasoline to natural gas for transportation, the nation’s carbon-monoxide emissions would decrease by 90 percent and the carbon-dioxide and nitrogen-oxide emissions would also decrease significantly (Mcgraw). The cleaner burning will help the United States with many issues. First, the issue of global warming can be helped resolved because there will be a decrease in greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere Also, with the fear of running out of oil, natural gas is a very sufficient replacement as Penn State students see every day with the CATA bus which runs solely on natural gas. There is natural gas all over the country and there is no sign of production slowing down.
The figure above compares the burning of natural gas to coal