On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:31:01 -0800, "Lew Hodgett"
wrote:


That will bite you in the shorts.

Lew
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wrote:


Particularly with a tank that holds 76 liters of fuel. My luck it
will
get low enough that I HAVE to buy fuel just when the price peaks,
and
it will drop $0.08 per liter the next day - and it will go back up
again by the time I need to refill again. Last fill was $92.00.

Mostly short urban cold weather trips means the average fuel
consumption is about 20MPG (big gallons - so 4/5 that for the or
16mpg
for the Yankee gallon)
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Time to start thinking about a natural gas vehicle.

There are more NG fueling stations being brought on line
every day.

Most of them aimed at the light truck as well as the 18 wheeler
market.

A dairy just completed installing a NG station open for use by the
general
public as well as the dairy fleet which has been converted to NG.

Lew


The problem with CNG is limited range and slow refueling. For
strictly an urban delivery vehicle they are fine - and home refill
units are (or at least were) available. A local electrical distributor
had CNG on an E250 van - took over half an hour to refill and they
could NOT run from Kitchener to Toronto and back to pick up parts on
one fill. They could have put in larger tanks, but would have had to
sacrifice interior space - and build an air-tight externally
ventilated enclosure because you can't have the tank in the occupied
area of the vehicle.