One thing I noticed on a trip to France last winter was that on the highway. most stations sell not only gasoline and Diesel (gasoil) but also LP gas, or Propane. It costs about €900 to convert a gasser to a system which starts on gasoline and then you can immediately switch over to propane.

The propane in France comes mostly from Russia. Here in the US the only thing that I have heard about it was back when they were building it, that that most notorious and annoying a-hole James Baker (a toady for the seven sisters of the oil lobby and buddy of both Olebush and his spawn Juniorbush) was against it because it wouild "create a dependence" by France on the then-USSR, by which he really meant, fewer profits for the members of the oligarchy whose hireling he was and is.

The USA has quite a lot of natural gas, and Canada and Mexico have more, and so far as I know, they are flaring it off at many wellheads. No politician I know of has mentioned the propane option.

While in France, I drove a friend's 90 Volvo wagon which was converted to propane about 170 miles into Spain and back, with no difficulty. It had over 400,000 Kms on the odometer. The radio had a display which announced the call letters of the station and the artist who was singing or the name of the program.

I seems to me that energy independence might be possible after all if all the options are incorporated into a comprehensive plan.

__________________
Semibodacious Transmogrifications a Specialty

1990 300D 2.5 Turbo sedan 171K (Rudolf)
1985 300D Turbo TD Wagon 219K (Remuda)

"Time flies like and arrow, yet fruit flies like a banana"
---Marx (Groucho)