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To: HiTech RedNeck
I think there is activity in the House to do something to get the Big Rigs setup to use compressed natural Gas.

Which would be good....government probably needs to help get infrastructure built.

7 posted on 01/06/2012 12:58:46 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

That’s dumber than dumb when you look at the energy content of diesel compared to the energy content of natural gas. Truck stops are far apart for a reason not to mention the acreage needed to park and maneuver. You’re not going to get the average rig into your neighborhood 7/11 to refuel and you’re not going to be able to build the truck stops needed to make up for the much shorter range when you’re running on natural gas. There’s a reason many of those trucks have two 150 gal. tanks.

The better option is to start producing multifuel vehicles like Ford used to do to run on both natural gas and gasoline and offer incentives for owners to convert their current light truck and larger automobiles.

If that happened you’d never see gasoline prices go up before Memorial Day, Labor Day or during the summer. People would use natural gas instead leaving stations stuck with a fuel, gasoline, that no longer has the shelf life it used to Gasoline prices might not plummet, but the price of oil would once a significant portion of US demand went away. It would be a good start to making Middle Eastern oil producing countries irrelevant.


12 posted on 01/06/2012 1:37:22 PM PST by meatloaf
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