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Natural-gas powered car in the doldrums

The natural-gas powered car is a paradox, writes Chris Woodyard in USA Today.
The fuel is readily available, North American-produced and virtually pollution-free. Many motorists could even fill up in their own garages every night just like they would power-up with one of the gas-electric plug-in hybrids still under development.
But no one seems to care. Not government officials. Not auto executives. Not consumers. Not even some environmentalists.
Most major automakers offered them in the 1990s, primarily for government and corporate fleets, but today, when natural gas offers a common-sense, immediate and ecological relief valve to the nation's dependence on foreign oil, only one major automaker still makes a production model — and sales stink.

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