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If Nat. Gas will meet your personal performance/hauling needs, you may as well just go electric.

If you stuck a push pin on a map and then stuck push pins on the gas wells drilled in the last five years within 20 miles, you would think I lived in the middle of a zombie invasion. Ground zero.

We have no regulations on dual fuel and have MP service to the meter. The kit (for a turbo) I will buy is good for about 200 miles per fill, plus the standard 14 gallon gasoline tank. The commuting is about 54 miles a day, so there is an economic incentive to do the switch. The commuting payback is slightly less than two years.

The kicker is still the home fuel station. If the gas company provided a lease option, I would already be running with gas. If local service stations (who are already supplied with NG) had the pumps, I would also already be converted.

The economics are there, but the hybrid NG-Gasoline option has been shelved for more expensive and complex electric. I have seen a dramatic increase in CNG compressors over the past several months, so I think the economics are probably here now with gasoline at $4 gallon.

I am against the government meddling. The best the government could do is to shut down the EPA and FERC and let people decide their options. I like the CNG hybrid. If gasoline is more economical, it is just a flip of a switch. If CNG is cheaper some month, then just home fuel. Either way, we do not have to be held hostage to oil imports. As CNG hybrids become more abundant, the dollars stay here in the US and depress foreign oil prices. I imagine part of the headwind issue is the difficulty of the state and federal government to tax by the mile.

Here in Nevada, and other states I am sure, the tax folk set up a number to call for the purpose reporting your neighbor for making bio-diesel at home.
They really want those taxes, I’m sure the same number would be used to report a person home fueling with CNG.

With a minor reward offered, that number may be more of a growth industry than the alternate fuels!

The proposed miles driven tax is our reward (punishment) for electric and any other vehicle that avoids the current tax collection structure.

I would not be surprised to see them auditing CNG compressor sales to find buyers to prosecute for tax evasion.