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FUELING CHANGE: A top Clinton appointee is literally driving home his crusade to get Americans to switch to motor vehicles powered by compressed natural gas. Jim Baca, nominated to head the Bureau of Land Management, has a family van that runs on the stuff. “I strongly believe in natural gas as an alternative clean fuel, and it gets us away from our dependence on foreign oil. Also, it helps natural gas sales in New Mexico,” said Baca, who was formerly the state’s lands commissioner.
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