On Jun 29, 8:23*am, "HeyBub" wrote:
ransley wrote:
On Jun 28, 4:23 pm, ".." wrote:
Dear Everyone,
as you know the price of the Oil is more and more increasing, while
the oil supply is decreasing. Moreover Oil is
causing wars, terror, oil spills, a lot of greenhouse gases. Do you
know that there is plenty of natural gas ? The
supply will last for many decades, probably for hundred years. A lot
of methane (natural gas) is found as shale gas,
a lot more will come from methane hidrates. Natural gas is causing
much less greenhouse gases and since it is found
locally, it will not cause any wars or terror. It will create jobs in
your own country and not in the middle east.
Do you know that by converting your car to natural gas, you can save
a lot of money ? It costs a lot lot less. You
may say that there are not enough gas stations, but you can fuel at
home* over night. You also should convert your
car to dual fuel, that means if your natural gas tank is empty you
can switch to petrol, until you find a gas station.
And the more people switch to natural gas, the more natural gas
stations will be built, otherwise they can not earn
money. Do you know that in Argentina there are almost 2 million CNG
(compressed natural gas vehicles), also in Pakistan
and Brazil there are more than 1,5 million CNG vehicles, whereas in
the US there are not even 200000 of them, although
most of the shale gas is found in the USA.

Sources:http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/...gas-usat_N.htm...
*http://www.tulsagastech.com/phill.html

The cost of the home pump units and the cost of running the compressor
ruin any price advantage I would get. Until the gov wakes up and
subsidises it, it wont fly.

"Government subsidizes it.."? That means, of course, that the bulk of the
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Exactly. Just because the government hands out subsidies, it doesn't
change something that is economically unviable into something that
is. Take a look at what's going on with solar electric here in
NJ. With all the subsidies between the feds and state, a $50K
residential 6KW system can cost the homeowner only $25K to put in.
The rest of that comes from the taxpayers and a surcharge placed on
everyones electric bill. And after that, the power companies here
are being forced to buy clean energy credits to meet their clean
energy reqts, so you can get a few thousand a year in income on top of
it. The only problem is, it only works with small numbers of people
doing it. Which in turn means it can't amount to any substantial real
impact on generating electricity to change anything. If more people
did it, there would not be enough money to subsidize it. That is the
paradox.

As for NG, here in NJ, NJ Transit experimented with it for some of
their busses. They have given up on it as not being cost effective,
too much trouble, etc. And a bus fleet obviously has far less issues
than using it for passenger cars, especially since busses can refuel
at their own depots each visit, etc.