What does "CNG" in the upcoming 2012 Honda CNG stand for exactly? Civic Natural Gas - that's right, the Honda Civic, available soon, can now be powered by natural gas. How long has Honda tried to market their CNG line-up of Civics? Since 1988, sold as the Civic GX according to Green Car Report.¹

With gasoline prices hitting $4 a gallon (and more) alternative fuels are going to become big business once again. Honda has been working on a natural gas variant of the Civic since the late 1980's. It looks like the Japanese auto maker finally got…