[ngat]

So, what’s taking so long for somebody to jump on T. Boone Pickens for saying natural gas’ best use is as a motor fuel?

[GonzoGOP]

So, what’s taking so long for somebody to jump on T. Boone Pickens for saying natural gas’ best use is as a motor fuel?

Turn it into methanol and make it easier to handle. NG you need a reinforced fuel tank so anything smaller than an SUV is going to take a performance penalty due to the weight of the tank. Convert the car to flex fuel (could be done for $100-$500 per car) and you can burn methanol, ethanol or good old fashioned gasoline. You have to burn twice as much methanol as gasoline, but if it is less than half the price it is still a good deal. You use whatever is cheaper. And you don't need any new infrastructure.

Sometimes options are better than plans.

[DiogenesLamp]

So, what’s taking so long for somebody to jump on T. Boone Pickens for saying natural gas’ best use is as a motor fuel?

This is a topic in which I am highly interested. I have researched conversions for several years. A "legal" conversion, (i.e. one using an EPA certified system and installer) can cost $12,000.00 for a car. That is simply too excessive to make it practical.

There are kits that people can buy on Ebay to do conversions, and these kits run around $500.00, and they do not include the CNG fuel tank, which must be bought separately. CNG fuel tanks cost from $200.00 used, up to several thousand for new. (Depending on size, of course)

The main problem with getting CNG popularized is the high cost of conversion, and the general absence of CNG filling stations. I am currently working on both problems for my area. I am installing my own CNG filling station on my property, and I am going to convert all my own vehicles over to natural gas.

I intend to sell my compressed natural gas for $1.00 per gallon. Hopefully other enterprenuers will follow suit, and CNG can be expanded to take over transportation from gasoline and diesel.

If we could convert our transportation fuels from an oil based system, we could tell those D@mned Arabs to go to H3ll and we would therefore stop supplying them with money which allows them to try and kill us. It is in the best interest of our country to do this, and I am doing my part.

[X-spurt]

T. Boone may not be our pick politically, but he's right about promoting NG as the best motor fuel to decrease the quantity of oil we consume and need to import from muslim’s that prefer freedom and America dead.

What most people never realize is that methane (Natural Gas) is a renewable resource. It can be produced (by the anaerobic microbes) in 30 days in sewer plants and landfills from almost any organic waste.

Additionally, most never know that there is likely an unlimited supply of NG in hydrolyzed methane in most oceans just waiting to be unlocked.

[BfloGuy]

So, what’s taking so long for somebody to jump on T. Boone Pickens for saying natural gas’ best use is as a motor fuel?

Oh, there's nothing wrong with that statement, it's just that he wanted the government to give him a few hundred billion in "incentives" to do it.

[Pining_4_TX]

Nah, I’ll jump on Boone for wanting to use taxpayer money to subsidize his business ventures.