On 5/30/2012 4:08 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On Wed, 30 May 2012 01:35:01 -0600, Just Wondering
wrote:



You can't simply extrapolate that experience to the entire nationwide
fleet of private vehicles. For one thing, the infrastructure to
distribute fuel on such a massive scale simply doesn't exist.
But the infrastructure can be greatly improved.

At what cost? Who is going to spend the mammoth cost to install a
nationwide NG system when the demand isn't there? And haw are you going
to create the demand without a ready supply? Explain why this is not an
insurmountable Catch-22.
I'd be fearful of
taking a NG vehicle on a vacation trip, but for cab fleets, delivery
fleets, police cars, it is a snap to do. Most of those never travel
more than a quarter tank of fuel from home so re-fueling from a
central point is easy.

In cities, there is some practicality for private use too.

Don't forget, there was a time that plain old gas stations did not
exit but the demand for them cause them to be built.

But even then you could carry extra fuel in a gas can. You can't do
that with NG.