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The U.S. vision — and funding — for alternate-fuel vehicles rests squarely with electrics. But things may be changing with the decline in the price of natural gas to roughly half that of gasoline.
By year-end, 123,600 nat-gas vehicles will be on U.S. roads, compared with 65,500 plug-ins.
“Hindsight is always 20-20,” said Christopher Knittel, a professor at MIT. “The drop in natural gas prices brings up and interesting issue, whish is, which technology do we want to pur out money behind.”