john o'dell of edumnds.com is skyping with us this morning.good morning, and what evidence is out that this is a good time for ford to accelerate into nat gas? - i think it's a good time because we discovered a lot of natural gas in this country, and there's a whole lot of effort to get it out of the ground and into the fuel system to help us offset our use of gasoline. - does the u.s. have the infrastructure right now to support more vehicles running on nat gas? - yes. it doesn't have a nationwide infrastructure - there are states with no retail natural gas stations - but there are many states with many natural gas stations, and, you know, that makes for regional markets for these kinds of vehicles. california, for instance, has hundreds and hundreds of them. - are consumers ready to make the switch? - that's a little bit more difficult. the truck that ford is doing is going to cost a good $9,000 more than the base f-150. the honda civic natural gas, which is the only factory- built natural gas car available right now, costs about $5,000 to $