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At least part of this is really not that hard
By klstay on 6/22/2010 9:38:13 AM , Rating: 2
Can you say CNG?

Practically zero emissions. Cradle to grave NO other cars create less overall. In fact nothing else is even close.

100% US domestic with a HUGE reserve given the recent field discoveries.

Half of all US homes today have natural gas already. If this alternative got 1/10 the support of the far less viable options getting billions low pressure home pumps would cost only hundreds of dollars.

By Dr of crap on 6/22/2010 10:15:21 AM , Rating: 2
You, my friend are soooo right.
Why have they not put any funds towards CNG?????
It's the better solution right now.

No food has to be used to make it,
No big cost is needed to make it,
It's not going to polute oceans,
We mine it and deliver it right now,
It's not $$$ over what cars cost now - Honda makes one right now, and yes the cost of it is higher right now, but if they sold over 100,000 cars, the cost would be that same as a gas burning car.

Where is the down side, really!

By IcePickFreak on 6/22/2010 1:29:54 PM , Rating: 1
Check out the wells (unmanned) that are strewn across the southwest. Some of the local areas have smog worse than LA (by several fold), the drinking water coming out of the faucet is flammable, etc. Ask the people who live around all these wells feel about switching to CNG. Heck, look at the smog that blankets downtown Dallas.

I'm not saying CNG couldn't work, but the current state of natural gas well operations doesn't make me want to support it in the slightest. Each site is it's own entity so to speak so they slip by regulation for pollution. Add up the thousands of them just around the Dallas/Ft. Worth area though and the collective is anything but 'green'. Then don't forget to figure the thousand or so truck loads of stuff taken to the site, and taken from each of these sites (chemical wastes etc) which are burning diesel anyway.

By ZachDontScare on 6/22/2010 2:29:48 PM , Rating: 2
Can you say CNG?

So go build or buy one. Its not like they dont exist. All the buses in my area run on natural gas.

Oh, you may end up paying $10,000 more for it... but thats the price for being a leader, right?

By Solandri on 6/22/2010 3:51:19 PM , Rating: 2
CNG is notoriously difficult to package and ship due to its gaseous nature. The pressures are enormous (over 10k psi), and volumes are huge compared to gasoline. The CNG Civic, which gets about the same range as a gasoline Civic, uses a CNG tank which fills up pretty much all of the trunk except enough space for a couple grocery bags near the edge. Its so difficult and unwieldly to work with and transport that even though significant quantities of it come out as a byproduct of drilling for oil, most oil companies simply flare it (burn it off).

Remember, for transportation applications, it isn't enough for the energy source to be cheap. It also has to be portable, safe, and easy to handle. Gasoline and especially diesel are the best match for those specifications. Nothing except biodiesel and alcohols (for hydrogen fuel cells) comes close.

By FreeTard on 6/22/2010 11:34:44 PM , Rating: 2
I'm all for CNG. However that doesn't get us off the foreign teet. Right now due to the low market value of natural gas, it's more cost effective to import it from India in liquid form than it is to drill for it.

Many of the companies that were drilling during the downturn, and continue to drill now, are doing so because they hedged the price back when it was at it's peak. As the hedged prices run out drilling slows down again. $3/unit on a 1-2mcf well isn't a very good investment.

I agree with the reserves though. We've got trillions of units of gas in NA, and I'm all for switching that way.

