Start replacing fuels with methane

Published 3:57 pm Friday, June 20, 2008

The present fuel crisis could easily be ended if methane gas was used to replace all fossil fuels.

The Johnson &Johnson Company is running an entire plant off the gas from the next door landfill. Every city’s landfill and sewer plant can become gas stations as well. This is a resource that is plentiful and very renewable. Instead of using food to create fuel, we can eat the food and create fuel.

Everything that rots creates methane gas and the use of it as a fuel reduces its negative effect on our atmosphere. We already have engines that run on propane and natural gas. Methane works just as well.

If the big oil companies were greatly “encouraged” by our government to quickly create such gas stations that would justify the tax breaks and other subsidies they currently receive.

That way they can still make profits as well as help to keep their customers alive.

We all know big government takes forever to get anything done. Small cities can get started now. How about it mayors and city council members?

CATHRYN MILLER