Posted on 06/17/2005 9:07:43 PM PDT by neverdem
It's the congestion that drives them all crazy there.
It costs over $600,000 to enter the taxicab market? That sounds insane!
that should be "used" Crown Vic CNG
600,000 dollars is the entry fee for the taxi market ? That's freakin insane. Just roll one cabbie and make a forged medallion for much less. Even if they take the car each time it would cost less to operate in NYC.
Thanks. Never do simple math after midnight. Or before 9am. Or on weekends. Or when the moon is full.
wuhhh boy.
There other states that are more competitive than Florida in regard to comparing other states with NY. Why do you think so many folks move to Florida from NY and not to other liberal havens, which are colored blue, lately?
Part of the problem is limiting options to LNG/CNG. Compressed natural gas has a very limited range. Liquified natural gas would do better, but since LNG tanks are cryogenic, forget about the trunk, it's full of fuel tank.
Propane liquifies by pressure alone, a Victoria could run all day on a tank that would leave luggage space, and can run dual-fuel, propane or gasoline. I know whereof I speak, over twenty years I have done after-market conversions on everything from pickups to floor buffers. If it runs on gasoline, I can make it run on propane. Computerized carburation has bumped the price to about $3,500 per, but one could refuel at the same places that fill grill bottles. Chemically, the difference is an extra carbon atom and emmissions are barely distinguishable. CNG has a better funded lobby.
Thanks. I knew LNG was wrong when I typed it but even as I thought about it nothing else would pop into my mind. I knew someone would catch it. :-) Regardless, just as with any other alternate fuel, even deisel, you have to know where to get fuel rather than just stop at any gas station. Some municipalities mandated CNG for city vehicles but they have a central fueling depot. Propane is probably the best gas choice but still not good, for fueling purposes, at the moment.
As a side benifit could the expanding gas be used for cooling?
Definitely. One of my former competitors made a side income trucking refrigerant grade propane. When R-12/R-22 went away a guy in Florida came up with a perfectly workable auto AC based on a closed propane cycle. It was rule a fire hazard and never went anywhere.
Us good ol' boys in west Texas have used wet lines off the fuel tank to chill hot beer for 50 years. Crack the valve just enough to let liquid out, the liquid is immediately going to its 40 degree below boiling point, takes about a gallon to put flecks of ice in a case of beer. Don't overdo it or you get beercicles. Advice; do this at a safe remove from the communal campfire and gloves are a good idea, this stuff will frostbite your fingers in a half a heartbeat.
It seems the hands on "good'ol'boys" understand this aspect of the technology better than gov. trained book smart techno-mechanic/industro-designers.
Why is that?
bump for later read
It was funny as heck!
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