Since the Reagan era, when the American Gas Association first began touting
its product as a bridge fuel, this idea has established itself among many of the world's leading energy experts.
One of CSPW's major criticisms of the QER under President Obama was its treatment of natural gas
as a «
bridge fuel» to a renewable energy future; since the infrastructure used to extract, process, and transport natural gas to market is essentially the same
as that for oil and petroleum
products, continued reliance on natural gas only delays the transition to clean, renewable energy and has only marginal CO2 - reduction benefits in the near term.