Use natural gas

There is a way to increase fossil fuel production and lower CO2 at the same time. Today there are 175,000 cars in the US running on natural gas and thousands of buses and garbage trucks. Here in the Mpls area there are 25 stations where they can refuel and 2,000 such stations across the country. Gasoline power cars average 32 mpg while natural gas cars average 43 mpg. Starting this year companies could make natural gas cars and as they come on line fueling stations could be built. Coal fired plants can convert to natural gas. The US could increase production of natural gas to meet the needs of Europe. The US government can become fossil fuel friendly and increase oil from 11 million barrels per day to 15 million. The US can start building thorium powered nuke plants. A 300 MW reactor would fit on a flatbed truck and weigh about 15 tons. This could power 300,000 homes. These small units can be added as needed. They will be close to the use point which eliminates long distance transportation lines. The building of wind and solar can continue and these can be built next to nuke plants as back ups when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine.