{"id":729378,"date":"2010-05-19T08:43:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T12:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenrightnow.com\/?p=11909"},"modified":"2010-05-19T08:43:23","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T12:43:23","slug":"university-of-texas-student-driving-to-boston-in-natural-gas-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/729378","title":{"rendered":"University of Texas student driving to Boston in natural gas vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From KEYE-Austin<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 298px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"video_player_image_55335\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/weareaustin.com\/images\/Multi_Media\/weareaustin\/nxd_media\/img\/jpg\/2010_05\/3d9797f9-0355-2384-c95f-24feff4fd2a4\/320x240.jpg?resize=288%2C216\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"216\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Castlen Kennedy will travel 2,300 miles from Austin to Boston in a vehicle that only uses natural gas. (Photo: KEYE)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A University of Texas grad student is hitting the road Wednesday to  show how we can go green with natural gas vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Castlen  Kennedy is embarking on a 10 day journey traveling 2,300 miles from  Austin to Boston, Mass. in a vehicle that only uses natural gas.<\/p>\n<p>On  the trip, Kennedy will provide a real-life look at the benefits and  challenges of using the alternative fuel for her graduate thesis.<\/p>\n<p>Castlen  says that natural gas is actually a domestic resource that we have a  lot of here in the United States.\u00a0 It burns a lot cleaner than diesel or  traditional gasoline. It typically costs about 30 percent cheaper than  gasoline, so the fact that it&#8217;s domestic, cleaner and cheaper makes it  an attractive alternative fuel option.<\/p>\n<p>You can follow Kennedy  on her trip on her website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenamericanroadtrip.com\/\" >greenamericanroadtrip.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From KEYE-Austin Castlen Kennedy will travel 2,300 miles from Austin to Boston in a vehicle that only uses natural gas. (Photo: KEYE) A University of Texas grad student is hitting the road Wednesday to show how we can go green with natural gas vehicles. Castlen Kennedy is embarking on a 10 day journey traveling 2,300 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2757,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12076,4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-33Ka","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2757"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}