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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
He emphasized that the cost of converting a car to CNG should only be $300

If wishes were fishes...

Reality is 10~20 times that. $8~10,000 for a pickup.

Was the guest T.Boone Pickens?

69 posted on 01/14/2015 4:33:53 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney
Was the guest T.Boone Pickens?
No, I’d have remembered that name since I know it.

But seriously, $8,000 for a carburetor and a tank????

The guy’s point was, partially, that the government was making it unnecessarily expensive to convert. I know that CNG has a major downside if you want to take a trip or a long commute. But since NG is plentiful and cheap, you do want to see CNG used by city busses (which is true where I am) and you want LNG used for long-haul freight - by ships, railroads, and even trucks.

I still say that we are now perfectly situated to put a tariff on OPEC oil, and that we ought to bite the bullet right now, when it would be least painful to us to do it.

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
OPEC is a conspiracy against the American public, and we should seriously consider going out of our way to avoid depending on its members. We have the capability, no thanks to Obama, to stop importing fuel from people who are hostile to us.

71 posted on 01/14/2015 6:52:57 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion ("Liberalism” is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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