GM Truck Warranty

[Builder]

I agree. The focus should be on making the big gas guzzlers better. The little cars like the Kia, Honda, Saturn, ect all ready do a decent job. I get a magazine from Ford every quarter. About 3 years ago they had a 5.4 4x4 F-150 that got around 60 mpg in town. It got the same mpg on the highway, about 18. They way it worked was they took away 3 inches of bed depth and below the bed it had a large tank similar to a well bladder tank. I think it was 100 gallons or so and what it did was use the auto tranny to pressurize the bladder tank with tranny fluid. It then used that fluid to propel the vehicle until it was used up then it went off the engine. That's why it did so good in stop and go and no better on the highway. The truck also had something like 800 ft lbs of torque from a dead stop. Anyway I never hear another thing about it.

Anyway, they really need to look at the big cars and adapting diesels to the cars folks are buying now. My sister just bought a Accord 2 weeks ago and they have a diesel coming out in the Accord in June with 52 mpg.

Chris

My friend, the future is CNG.

It's cheap, ready for action right now and it's an abundant resource in this country. You'll see some CNG cars, but it will really work well in city delivery trucks & busses. It already does. We have CNG trucks around here right now.

With falling oil prices and the typical mentality status quo, I'm afraid all those alternatives will be shelved once again. I wonder if we'll ever learn.

 

[redneckford]

My friend, the future is CNG.

It's cheap, ready for action right now and it's an abundant resource in this country. You'll see some CNG cars, but it will really work well in city delivery trucks & busses. It already does. We have CNG trucks around here right now.

With falling oil prices and the typical mentality status quo, I'm afraid all those alternatives will be shelved once again. I wonder if we'll ever learn.

Compressed Natural Gas in 18 Wheelers----A Good transition drug until we can get battery and nuclear power!!!! Why is it OK to pay for off shore tractors but not off shore oil----what is wrong with that thinking----GM tractors coming to a show room near YOU????

 

[Builder]

Compressed Natural Gas in 18 Wheelers----A Good transition drug until we can get battery and nuclear power!!!! Why is it OK to pay for off shore tractors but not off shore oil----what is wrong with that thinking----GM tractors coming to a show room near YOU????

Something tells me being energy independent might just be a tad more important to our nation's future than not being able to buy a domestic compact tractor........

 

[Dargo]

My friend, the future is CNG.

Unfortunately the estimates are that it would take about 15 years to have adequate coverage across our country for refilling. I believe that is a pretty big roadblock for CNG. I'd bet pretty heavily that within 15 years we will have a better alternative and, with that being the general consensus, the possibility of getting people to invest in CNC refilling stations really degrades.

 

[Builder]

I'd disagree with that because we already have abundant CNG, it's cheap, clean and it's easy to spread the grid with large CNG tanks. Present vehicles can be cheaply converted. Compared to batteries, it's a no brainer. I really don't see what magic hocus pocus will be available in the near future or even 15 years that surpasses CNG. We already power millions of homes with it.

We already have it here in municipal vehicles.

The best part is the technology already exists and there's really no downside to it.

The problem is that dropping oil prices will cause us to keep embracing oil until the next crisis hits. All you hear is the average joe all excited over gas down to $2/gallon.

 

[SnowRidge]

CNG vehicles have limited range.

 

[redneckford]

T. Boone the next trillionaire----Dargo what company are you investing in again----from your own words I think i will bet double on the other side

 

[redneckford]

Something tells me being energy independent might just be a tad more important to our nation's future than not being able to buy a domestic compact tractor........

What did grandpa say "Take care of the pennies and the Dollars will be in YOUR Pocket!!!"

 

[Dargo]

T. Boone the next trillionaire----Dargo what company are you investing in again----from your own words I think i will bet double on the other side

Eggsackly! I thought propane or CNG would be great and we've had our city vehicles using it for over 10 years. It is dead in the water because there is only one place in town for filling. We sold a load of S10 pickups way back when and they were converted to run on CNC. It's been that long ago. Unfortunately there's nobody to work on them and no place to fill them. As I said, the experts in the field say it would take 15 years if companies and service stations decided to go that way. The fact is that they haven't. The cost for natural gas has gone up several hundred percent since I built my home. It's actually so expensive now that electric is making a comeback with heat pumps.

 

[redneckford]

Looking to buy CNG fueling stations CHEAP cheap cheap!!!! call BR5---- leave a message if we have any money left for cell phone minutes we will call you back!! This Gotta make alot of money DARGO say----s!!! NO