Help with car purchase[VANITY]

[ozoneliar]

I'm considering buying a car, but I don't want a cent of my money to, however indirectly, go to the mideast. I was looking into several alternative fuels. It seems the infrastructure to support most of these fuels is lacking. I did find one fuel--CNG compressed natural gas. It seems there are fueling stations across the country, as well home fueling options available.

I was thinking of either buying a GMC Sierra, or having another American car retrofitted to use CNG. I was hoping that some members here, also sick of supporting the mideast oil structure have experience with CNG or some other viable alternative.

Any advice, thoughts?

[GoforBroke]

This site has info on CNG. http://www.eere.energy.gov/afdc/altfuel/natural_gas.html
with this thread locating all the alternative fuel stations. http://www.eere.energy.gov/afdc/infrastructure/locator.html

[ozoneliar]

Have you had any hands on experience with CNG?

[GoforBroke]

None specifically, I just had to do a report on Alternative fuel vehicles.

I did work at a muffler shop in high school and either a CGN vehicle or a propane vehicle came in off the freeway with the engine racing. Apparently, the mixture was a bit off and caused a fire in the intake manifold rather than the combustion chamber, which in turn melted the throttle butterfly. This was during the early 80's

[gondramB]

I would think it's a bad time to go to natural gas since it has gone up in price more than any other fuel with more increases on the way.