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To: Vermont Lt
I could never understand why Nat gas never caught on for cars.

Hard to store, basically. You either have to compress it and store it in a fairly heavy tank, or liquefy it, which means you have a thermos bottle of very cold liquid which can't be stored indefinitely. Nevertheless, there are a number of fleet vehicles that have been converted to NG.

I have a (stationary) NG fueled standby generator. While it's hard to handle, engines love it as a fuel. When I change the oil on the generator, the old oil looks -- after a year -- almost as clean as the new oil.

55 posted on 04/21/2022 3:15:15 PM PDT by Campion (All we are saying is give peace a chance.)
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To: Campion; Vermont Lt

Urban buses and some short haul trucks use CNG quite a lot. MARTA in Atlanta certainly does. Fueling is a big deal, but it’s not too bad to set it up for a bus fleet covering a limited geography


105 posted on 04/21/2022 6:15:40 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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