Natural gas is undoubtedly
cleaner than petroleum or diesel, but many argue that any move towards more fossil fuels is a step in the wrong direction.
They currently tap, refine and distribute natural gas (much
cleaner than petroleum based products), and turn a nice little profit in the process.
Not exact matches
Back in the
petroleum - challenged 1970s, alternative energy of all sorts — solar, wind, geothermal, and anything
cleaner and environmentally friendlier
than fossil fuels — was the wave of the future and hence the stuff of entrepreneurial dreams.
Cleaner than clean energy: BioSolar creates new plastic backing for photovoltaic cells out of cotton and castor beans rather
than petroleum products
Whether that be the 11 workers killed in the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, the more
than 70
cleaners sickened by the aftermath, or the thousands of Nigerians killed directly or indirectly by our unquenchable thirst for
petroleum.
There has been some progress: since 2000, the number of people in developing countries with access to
clean cooking — principally liquefied
petroleum gas (LPG), natural gas and electricity, has grown by 60 %, and the number of people cooking with coal and kerosene has more
than halved.