How do you know when the public recognizes a petroleum-driven transportation world is being transformed -- if a bit too slowly for some clean-energy advocates -- to one powered by cleaner-running vehicles using electricity, natural gas, and other less-polluting fuels?
To Chuck Feinberg, president of the New Jersey Clean Cities Coalition, a nonprofit organization geared toward reducing petroleum usage in the transportation economy, it means convincing the public that alternative-fuel vehicles are no longer a thing of the future.
“My goal is make the take the word alternative out of alternative fuels so that they are mainstream fuels and get broadly deployed and broadly used,’’ Feinberg said during a NJ Spotlight roundtable on “Building NJ’s Infrastructure for a Clean Fuel Future” held Friday at Rider University. He believes we should be using a variety of those fuels, a point driven home by Hurricane Sandy.
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