We sure are at the blunt end of this spear.
I wonder how one would play this from an investment point of view? Which companies stand to benefit most?
My dog is a natural gas vehicle. Especially when I give him chicken.
Not long ago, I took my van to be washed at the Flying J truckstop in Wytheville Virginia. You must thread your way through all the big rigs and a scale to get to the back of the lot and the truck wash.
I was astounded to find the path taken before was blocked. There was a brand new covered pump area. It is the Pilot Flying J/ T Boone Pickens big rig natural gas filling station. It was blocked off and not operational but appeared ready to go.
The success f failure of this experiment will be telling for the future.
Their real goal is to wipe out five or six billion human beings, by whatever means necessary.
I’ve looked into NG for vehicles a little.
I live in the city and work not too far outside it.
There is one natural gas filling station in the area, and by coincidence, it’s not too far from my house at the the local gas utility’s facility.
But there are two problems...
1) The gas filling station is not open to the public
2) The EPA has made it practically impossible to convert an existing vehicle to natural gas (or propane, for that matter) legally. Conversions have to be “certified” and tested, meaning they are very expensive and only available for a limited number of vehicles.
In the current environment, it’s only practical for fleet usage.
“According to the IEA, it can cost from $400,000 to $1.7 million to build a compressed-natural-gas filling station, and up to $4 million for a liquefied-natural-gas station. By comparison, a gasoline station costs from $50,000 to $150,000. “
I’m willing to bet that the $400,000 to $1.7M has a lot to do with compliance. We can develop technology in this country, but we cannot implement it. Also, I’m not sure how you could get a gas station built for $50,000. You might buy one for that in a rather depressed real estate market, but you would never build one for that. If I bought a gas station for $50K, I wonder how much would it cost to convert it? This is the wave of the future, and our policy makers are utterly blind to it.
Is anyone beginning to get the feeling that the “Big Players” are starting the process to convince everyone to go Nat. Gas with the real purpose of rising prices and manipulating the market? I could see Obama pushing natural gas simply to kill off the oil industry, for example.
I like natural gas, and we have tons of it.
But I no longer trust anything on its face value.
(*Has anyone noticed that in every study [health, lifespan, &c] we come in basically last, yet we control the world and everyone wants to be here? LOL)
Those charts clearly point out that natgas vehicles have taken off ONLY in countries where there is government support for the concept. That Figure 12 chart shows that N. America has been flat lined for 20 years. Without federal government support, the VERY EXPENSIVE conversion of vehicles from diesel or gasoline to natgas will continue in the USA v e r y v e r y s l o w l y. We will wind up exporting our tremendous natgas supply to other countries who are wisely making the conversion to cleaner, cheaper fuel while we continue to import expensive foreign oil from countries that hate us.
I may have ‘free gas’ on the farm soon when they finally get to my area to frack (within 2 years). It would be nice to be able to fill up a vehicle to zip around the farm. Anything over my free allocation is still very cheap since the price is at the well head. I might consider getting a car/truck and filling it at the farm. I wonder if that is possible.
“According to the IEA, it can cost from $400,000 to $1.7 million to build a compressed-natural-gas filling station, and up to $4 million for a liquefied-natural-gas station. By comparison, a gasoline station costs from $50,000 to $150,000.”
sounds like an opportunity
someone can do, or pay for, the R&D to bring down the cost of installing what’s needed at fueling stations outfitted to supply natural gas for transportation
as for locations, I’d know where I’d start (not sayin)
Yes it is amazing that that it costs $400,000 to $1.7 million to build a station, yet 3rd world hell holes can pump it on the cheap! Does anyone really think it costs that much to build one in the 3rd world? lol Poor ole American’s taking it in the shorts once again.