Historically the prices of gasoline and diesel fuel were not much different. Now I see that diesel is $1 more expensive than gasoline. Why is that? Are there gas-only subsidies?
NG offers 10% reduction in CO2 emissions after accounting for all its downsides (the lower power output and combustion efficiency). See the last page of https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy16osti/64267.pdf
The reduction of CO2 could be higher if they would redesign the engines to burn NG with higher efficiency.
While electric vehicles are great. The deprecation costs, battery manufacturing and recycling, electricity distribution, and charging remain monumental issues to the technology. Vehicle deprecation contributes to about half of the overall cost per mile for non-commercial fleet.
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