lets try some numbers, these prices from memory,
so the may have changed a little
price of spot NG, 7 USD per million-btu.
price of wholesale gasoline,
Europe, 2 USD per gallon
U.S., 2.30 USD per gallon
gasoline, 120,000 btu per gallon
U.S. gasoline, 19.16 USD per million btu
rather unfortunate, that Americans are too stupid
to use NG in cars
Plus LNG is cleaner burning too......guess the polis of The Hill are in the hip pocket of BIG OIL?
Been tried years ago, even GM had some commercial vehicle conversions. Only thing though is people don't much like driving around with a 3,000 PSI bomb of natural gas in their trunk. Big, big problems when they go 'bang'.
The numbers you use don't include the cost of conversion to LNG.
IIRC when I worked at the Chrysler dealership, they had flex fuel vehicles that would run on LNG & Gasoline... Government agencies would run these...At the time LNG was pretty cheap.