Stock market: CNG as auto fuel? What companies?

Question

If you were prescient and you knew for certain that in the future - 2012 - CNG was going to replace gasoline as the most common automotive fuel, what companies would you invest in?

Honda seems to be the industry leader in CNG fueled vehicles, but Honda stock is already at a high value. (Note: a barrel of oil costs $125; the equivalent energy amount of CNG - the price point at which it is delivered to your home - is $54 per barrel of oil equivalent, and it's pretty clean burning too)

Answer 1

Believe it or not - Ford. I have 2 vehicles that run on cng right now, and they are both Fords, and I love 'em! One is a 1999 Crown Vic and the other is a 2000 F-150 pickup truck. Why they stopped making them in 2004 I'll never know, but there are whispers that they may start up again. I'm no insider, but I know what works for me, and it's these cars. Cheap to fill up ($10) and much better for the environment than any gasoline car out there (or hybrid). Plus, natural gas is plentiful in the USA, so the money stays in our own economy. Ford stock is in the toilet now, so if their execs figure out that this is the way to go, they could ramp up their operation and put out these cars once again and make a killing. They obviously know how to do it.  

Answer 2

CNG prices will be rising to an amount equal to gasoline. invest in oil and gas drilling companies, not in CNG users as they will suffer.

Answer 3

I already own stock in SEMPRA, which is one of the largest suppliers of natural Gas.

I bought when it was cheep, but the price of stock has gone up considerable since I bought.

Answer 4

Clean Energy Fuels (symbol CLNE) is North America's largest provider of CNG & LNG to transportation firms.  T. Boone Pickens is behing this company.

Cummins Engine (CMI) has teamed up with Westport to allow their diesel engines to operate on CNG.  Sterling, Daimler's US division, Kenworth and Peterbilt are making models that use the Westport-Cummins engine.

Westport Innovations (WPIVF pink sheets) a Vancouver, Canada company makes "proprietary solutions" allowing engines to operate on CNG & LNG as well as hydrogen

Environmental Power (NASDAQ:EPG) {only 3 letter NASDAQ stock I have seen} and its subsidiary Microgy, Inc. builds, owns and operates energy production facilities which utilize manure and agricultural and food by-product waste to produce methane-rich biogas.

I agree with the responder above who said to invest in producers.

Some of them are:  Cheniere Energy (LNG),  Chesapeake Energy (CHK), Devon Energy (DVN), EOG Resources (EOG), MDU Resources (MDU), Questar (STR),

Also pipeline companies like ATMOS Energy (ATO), El Paso Energy Partners (EPN), Dominion Resources (D), Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP), ONEOK (OKE), Questar (STR), Spectra Energy (SE), and others.