Ford expands its natural gas offering

Ford is expanding its lineup of vehicles for buyers who want to run on clean natural gas to include its bestseller, the F-150 pickup.

The automaker says adding the 2014 F-150 will make it the only maker with a full-size pickup that can come prepped from the factory for natural gas, then sent to an outfitter. Until now, Ford's natural-gas lineup has included the small Transit Connect and E Series vans, and the big Super Duty pickups and chassis cabs.

The lineup underscores how even though natural gas is a domestically produced fuel priced at a fraction of the cost of gasoline -- averaging $2.11 a gallon -- it's still largely commercial buyers and fleets embracing it. Only Honda produces a natural-gas car, a version of the Civic, in limited numbers.

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