Would you buy a NG powered truck?

[Tollster]

Only if I had my own well, becasue once everyone converts, big oil will have a new tool to sodomize us with, and we will promply be right back where we are now.
Its the coporate greed that must be curtailed.

 

[Rancher Ed]

I love Google

"62 million homes in the U.S are heated using natural gas. As of 2009 this number represented about 56 percent of households in the United States."

NaturalGas.org

If I could buy a car, or a half ton pickup that ran on CNG I'd be signing papers tonight.

Ok, just over half use it for heat, and there are probably a few more that have it but don't use it. That still leave a third of the population without it. I've been unable to find anything that shows where the houses are, big city, city/urban, semi-rural, and rural, but I would be it is heavily weighted to the rural and semi-rural being the ones who don't have it, and they are the ones most likely to have trucks.

Now if we are talking cars, you lived in the city, and already had NG, I could see looking into it since you could refill it overnight and the shorter range wouldn't be a hindrance. However, the thread title says trucks and the link is talking about 3/4 tons, and in that market I'm not interested and don't see enough others being interested to make it work.

Ed

 

[Diamondpilot]

Only if I had my own well, becasue once everyone converts, big oil will have a new tool to sodomize us with, and we will promply be right back where we are now.
Its the coporate greed that must be curtailed.

You sound like Obama.:confused2: What is wrong with being successful and making money? They are in business to make money, plain and simple. Follow the money trail, its not the oil companies making all the money its the gubment making it on a nearly 25% tax on most fuels.

I dont like paying $4 a gallon either but its not the oil companies that are doing it to us but thats the liberal MSNBC stand.

Chris

 

[two_bit_score]

Nope, I would never buy one. I had to use one about 15 years ago that was furnished by my employer. It was hard to start when cold and there was a loss of power. I believe the company that did the retro said it was 10%. My unscientific believe it was closer to 20%. Have to be very careful when fueling, more than one person ended up with burns from the LPG.

Then there is the safety aspect. We finally got rid of them when one of them went up in flames. Made quit a show, flames thirty to forty feet in the air. The "official" cause turned out to be a supply line leak that was ignited by the hot exhaust. I wish I had a video of it.

Forgot, the darn tank took up about a third of the truck bed. There is also the loss of fuel economy. If you get say 16 mpg on gas, you may get 12 mpg on propane. As already stated I would never buy one. Not sure I would even drive one if it was given to me.

With all that said, it may be possible they have addressed these issues. It is definitely one thing I would check out.

Probably been a lot of improvements in the last 15 years. Like in almost everything else.

Glad to see you come around to good common sense by the end of your post.



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[two_bit_score]

I love Google

"62 million homes in the U.S are heated using natural gas. As of 2009 this number represented about 56 percent of households in the United States."

NaturalGas.org

If I could buy a car, or a half ton pickup that ran on CNG I'd be signing papers tonight.

You make some excellent points about CNG as a transportation fuel. I too would love to have a CNG powered truck. Someday I really hope it is the primary transportation fuel.

Almost every street in America ha or is relatively close to a natural gas pipeline thanks to a nationwide network already in place.

If I were Energy Czar I'd go to some major companies like Wal-mart and try to work out a deal to get a CNG refueling station in every station they have. Keep the price down without putting taxes on it. Once people start seeing that they can easily refuel and if the vehicles don't need to be dual systems, just straight CNG, it would be more reasonable.

I'd like to see as little government involvement as possible. Some will be necessary.

Here is an interesting system from the UK Gasfill - CNG refuelling at home.



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[timster2]

The problem I see with CNG is that the gas suppliers will tie their price to the price of gasoline. They will offer CNG at 20% less than gasoline as a marketing ploy instead of selling it at whatever it is worth. This is not conjecture it is what the gas company quoted for CNG as a motor fuel.

 

[two_bit_score]

The problem I see with CNG is that the gas suppliers will tie their price to the price of gasoline. They will offer CNG at 20% less than gasoline as a marketing ploy instead of selling it at whatever it is worth. This is not conjecture it is what the gas company quoted for CNG as a motor fuel.

They have to recover costs and make a profit to stay in business.




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[Monster5601]

I think Honda has a car factory ready....

Because of my work and where I live it is best to buy a domestic brand. I also need a vehicle that can accommodate me since I am 6' 4" tall. The Asian cars I have tried to get in, I gave difficultly clearing the door opening with my head and once in, my head is just touching the head liner.

more than one person ended up with burns from the LPG.

You realize there is quite a difference between LPG and CNG and this thread was about CNG?

 

[wcampbell47]

In the 70's I had a 3/4 ton truck that I converted to dual fuel. I fitted an 80 gallon LPG tank across the bed just behind the cab. I could only buy 5 gallons of gas every other day, but could pull into my local propane dealer and get a full load. The LPG setup ran very clean, but did not give me the mileage that gas did.

The technology is available. I converted because of the shortage of gasoline and the tax benefit of using propane. At that time I did not pay road taxes for propane which made it much less than gasoline.

 

[timster2]

They have to recover costs and make a profit to stay in business.
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True they need to operate a business pay share holders, I get that. However if something happens in the middle east and gas jumps a dollar a gallon what has that to do with the pipeline from Louisiana and the supply of NG. The price for NG has been dropping since more reserves and wells are being drilled here in the US. I'm just saying NG should be sold for what it cost to produce, profits for those involved transportation, compression, retail sales etc. not tied to the price of imported gasoline.