It would be a better use of capital to invent a type of pump you could deploy at a ‘gas’ station, that would dispense natural gas almost the same way you can get gasoline or diesel.
Set the pump up next to the others, and then provide a paid up license for the IP to all the car manufacturers that would allow for the connection of the new pump to a new nipple. You click the new hose fitting into the nipple, which seals around it, and then squeeze the handle like you would for gas.
Once the natgas tank is full, the pump shuts off automatically and processes the receipt - no ability to top off.
The company makes money selling the pumps to the gas station owners. It wouldn’t be long before the oil companies either bought nat gas interests, or a bunch of independent gas stations started popping up once you put the gallon price of nat gas (about $2.20) next to the price of gasoline ($4.00).
You cut the balls off of any politician that makes a move to tax it, and then every environmentalists wet dream comes to pass - cars running on cleaner fuel - only this time the average joe wins too when their commuting bill gets cut in half.
You’d also see the price of a gallon of gas drop through the floor.
The states would start screaming about their tax revenue losses, of course, never once wondering where all the extra retail sales tax revenue was coming from.
Gas taxes and cell phone taxes are the biggest scams going. Anybody that says government can do good things for people only have to have their noses rubbed in what could only be called bald-faced consumer fraud style taxation on their cell phones.
In fact, I’m shocked that gas stations never went to putting the retail price of gas up on their boards, followed by the tax price per gallon right underneath it. No law saying they can’t, they just don’t.