CSP Magazine | December 2011

Hitting the Gas

As tax credits end, natural-gas fuel industry attempts to set anchor.

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It’s more than about natural gas or the environment. It’s about our country, says Scott Zaremba.

“Being through the Gulf War, the oil embargo, you start seeing we need another source of transport energy,” he says. “That’s where I got into ethanol, biodiesel, propane, and [compressed natural gas] now is the latest one to come down the pipe.

“None of them is the answer to everything, but they’re all going to have their specific segment that they can pick up and take care of.”

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