Natural gas would make an ideal clean motor fuel for city and school buses, delivery vehicles and business fleets. Why not give some incentives for developing these alternatives which use existing technology instead of pouring taxpayer dollars down green rat holes like the electric cars, algae and ethanol?
They do not need tax payer incentives. The market is moving forward already. There are about 112,000 NGVs on U.S. roads today.
But some incentives do exist already.
http://www.ngvc.org/incentives/index.html
The Natural Gas Act failed passsage in the Senate last week by just a few votes short of 60, as I recall. The Heritage Foundation opposed it ...
http://heritageaction.com/2012/03/senate-rejects-nat-gas-act/