Greater use of North America's abundant natural gas resource to power our cars and trucks can fuel America's bottom line, serving as the engine our economy needs by stimulating investment in infrastructure, creating exploration and production and manufacturing and service sector jobs, and improving fleet operators' profitability while simultaneously improving the air we breathe and stemming the hemorrhage of cash for foreign oil that saps our treasury, squelches our economy and increases our national debt. Utilizing our industry's considerable resources and technological know-how, we've developed momentum toward achieving our goal. Now, more than ever, we must convince consumers and businesses of our technologies' reliability, performance and economic viability if we hope to break their addiction to gasoline and diesel. And, we must motivate politicians to boldly lead by implementing long term policies that ease the transition away from reliance on problematic conventional fuels toward natural gas vehicles and other sustainable transportation solutions.

The 2011 National NGV Conference-Summit is the place where industry stakeholders, progressive fleet operators, thoughtful policymakers and clean-air/clean-transportation advocates meet to assess NGV market opportunities, strategize on overcoming challenges and build on strengths to ensure continued success.