Sorry I thought you were suggesting using natural gas instead of using more fuel efficient engines. I'm not saying we currently have a solution though there are some quite clever uses of fuel cells going on out there but they are still a bit of a way away.
Yup but that is a different matter...
Plenty of people commute further than that in the UK. Someone at my sisters work commutes from Paris to London on the eurostar everyday, and another comes from the Isle of Wight every day.