Still doesn’t justify tax funded subsidies and billions in earmarks.
It does for the simple reason that Detroit isn’t going to ramp up production of NG or multifueled vehicles without something in place to get buyers into the showroom. Ford’s effort tried and died years ago. This is the one single thing that can severely curtail gasoline usage in and oil imports to this country meaning OPEC is screwed.
This should have been done during the oil embargo of the early seventies. The technology has been around since the 50s.