I am going to go ahead and risk responding before reading the rest of
the posts so I might be behind on this one.
My understanding is that NG is not that easy to use on road vehicles.
There was a recent thread on a boating forum I read where a fellow
talked about trying to convert a boat to NG.
There are issues with tank size and weight etc.
Also NG tends to produce less power.
I don't know enough about it to really go much further with this, but
generally it is easier said than don.
Randy
On 25/01/2012 9:12 AM, Michael Canfield wrote:
Nothing that makes sense for the people will happen. Americans are too
bullheaded to change. Gummit (I like that term.) is too greedy. Why use
natural gas? The pipleliners I speak to around here(they are working in
northern PA.) tell me there are huge reserves of oil under all of the gas.
What they are doing now is pumping out gas and capping oil wells. They
speculate that there is more oil under the USA than several Saudi Arabias.
Imagine the chaos that would ensue if the public knew we have these huge
reserves but still pay out trillions to import oil. Hush, hush is the rule
for the gas workers.
Mike
On Jan 25, 2012 9:34 AM, "Rich Thomas"<[email protected]>
wrote:
No real need to get goosed by the gummint (we are all getting "goosed"
enough) -- if it makes economic sense (without artificial "sense") it will
be done. The problem is the network of CNG stations, that would have to be
built out. But it probably would make best sense for fleet vehicles that
could be refueled from a central location.
--R
On 1/25/12 9:21 AM, andrew strasfogel wrote:
What I wanted to hear last night was "Look, oil is expensive but
natural gas is plentiful and the price is really now and projected to
stay that way. Let's take steps (as T Boone Pickens suggests) to
massivlely convert trucks from diesel to the use of natural gas."
Maybe we could do something similar for passenger vehicles. A little
goose from the gov'r. and then the private markets will do the rest.
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