Many businesses in recent years have shifted their energy needsfrom traditional oil/gasoline to traditionally cheaper, cleaner,and more plentiful natural gas. AT&T, for example, recentlyreplaced 8,000 of its regular service vans with natural-gas-poweredvehicles. It believes the shift to natural gas service vans willsave it the cost of about 49 million gallons of regular gasoline ofthe next decade. But what are some of the negatives of this costcontrol measure? Does the fact that less than 1,500 of the U.S.162,000 vehicle service stations currently sell natural gas haveany implications on AT&T's strategic moves in this regard? Whatabout the fact that oil/gasoline prices have fallen a decent amountrecently?
