My wife has a 2 litre saloon which has a gas conversion fitted. We have never run the car on petrol for nearly 3 years. The gas tank is fitted in the boot (American trunk) and holds 90 litres of gas which in terms of range gives nearly 300 miles and costs £25 to fill up as opposed to a full tank of petrol which gives the same range costing £70 at current prices.
In real "cost" terms I reckon that the car is giving the petrol equivalent of 55mpg. My current car is a 2 litre X type Diesel Jaguar that I get about 45mpg average from and when I change it I'l probably go for a 2 litre petrol and have a gas conversion fitted (£about £1,100) as opposed to another diesel. The reason being that diesel is now £1.30 per litre as opposed to £1.15 for petrol and this difference along with the cheaper price of gas (0.49 per litre) makes the conversion cost effective. Dave Crozier -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leland F. Jackson, CPA Sent: 26 August 2008 18:21 To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: [OT] On the Road Again If you put a fuel tank on a VW Jetta Wagon the size of the fuel tank used in the natural gas Civic GX, you could probably drive cross country without ever needing to fill her up. It would be a big hit on the pocket book whenever you did get around to filling her up, but if you didn't need to make long trips, you could probably drive for months between fill ups. Does anyone know how many gallon the Civic GX natural gas tank would hold? Regards, LelandJ Michael Madigan wrote: > The good things are > > 1. Natural Gas is cheaper than gasoline > > 2. Natural gas burns cleaner than gasoline > > 3. This nation produces a lot of its own natural gas > > 4. People who heat their homes with natural gas theoretically could get a natural gas compressor to fill their cars at home. > > 5. This would be perfect for delivery trucks, mail trucks, school buses, and any other vehicle that only needs to drive relatively short distances a day. > > > > > ************************************************************************ > Right Wing Mike > > http://www.cafepress.com/rightwingmike > > Bigfoot Hates Obama > > http://www.cafepress.com/rightwingmike/5690856 > > I Wish Hillary had married OJ > > http://www.cafepress.com/rightwingmike/4236924 > > > --- On Tue, 8/26/08, Leland F. Jackson, CPA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> From: Leland F. Jackson, CPA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: [OT] On the Road Again >> To: "ProFox Email List" <[email protected]> >> Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 12:49 PM >> A story about small autos that use natural gas as a fuel hit >> the >> Washington Post today. From what I've gather the >> natural gas autos are >> not a complete package. >> >> 1) The natural gas is stored in a compressed form in a >> heavy duty fuel >> tank. Still, the fuel tank is huge and take up so much >> space there is >> no room for a car trunk. >> >> 2) Even with a large heavy duty fuel tank, the natural gas >> vehicle only >> hold the equivalent of 5 to 6 gallon of gas, which limits >> the range of >> the vehicle to around 180 miles. This is not good for long >> trips, >> especially when there are few service stations that offer >> natural gas >> fuel, which mean the next nearest station could be a long >> distance away. >> >> 3) As per 2 above, there are few service station that >> carry natural gas. >> >> 4) The natural gas vehicle uses a combustion engine. I >> suppose this >> would limit the compression ratio to something like 8 to 1 >> or 9 to 1, >> whereas the diesel has a compression ration of 19 to 1 to >> 25 to 1. The >> diesel would provide better performance with greater >> torque, and still >> give better miles per gallon. Of setting the better >> mileage per gallon >> in the diesel is a cheaper cost for an equivalent gallon of >> natural gas. >> >> 5) Natural gas is not a renewable energy. Once it is >> burned, it is >> gone forever. >> >> 6) Natural gas prices have been under demand side economic >> pressure for >> some time now, which has increased cost to the end users, >> and this trend >> is likely to continue. >> >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/25/AR2008082502 546.html?wpisrc=newsletter >> or >> http://tinyurl.com/6gqhdw >> >> >> Regards, >> >> LelandJ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Post Messages to: [email protected] >> Subscription Maintenance: >> http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox >> OT-free version of this list: >> http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech >> Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox >> This message: >> http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are >> the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or >> medical advice. 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