Compressed Natural Gas for vehicles

Does anyone know if these gas companies and subcontractors use any compressed natural gas vehicles or do they just fill up with foreign diesel fuel?  US has Boon Pickens and corporations asking for governmental support and funding for CNG, one has to ask where the leadership is on this topic.

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Permalink Reply by Deci Ruiz on May 1, 2012 at 11:09am
You have made my day!!! This is what has been needed "supply and demand " the price will follow
Thanks for the post
Permalink Reply by familyman on May 1, 2012 at 12:53pm

thank you very much. i agree there is a point of feasibility, but we are actually trying to work towards common sense rules, ones to enhance safety and will actually protect the environment more, but we want the prices to come down,.i can tell you the installers arent making the big bucks... i wish i were, but then competition could bring prices down. Personally, i replaced a slightly used truck with a brand new one because the savings on fuel exceeded my truck payments.

Permalink Reply by Jack Straw on May 1, 2012 at 4:49pm

Excellent news.

I suspect that there is a "Critical Mass" of infrastructure that needs to be in place.

Once we have that infrastructure is there, visibly there - and discovered, there will be a rush to CNG.

There are a lot of exciting things happening.

If our myopic Government stopped pouring money down the rat hole w.r.t. solar, wind, biofuels, corn ethanol (turning food into fuel), crony capitalism, etc. and made Natural Gas a priority we could move much more quickly. The Government does not need to subsidize; they just need to get out of the way.

 

All IMHO,

                JS

Permalink Reply by time will tell on May 1, 2012 at 5:02pm

But Jack what would we do with all of that money we would save by producing our cleaner burning CNG ? After all I like  pumping  money over seas to our buddies that us it to blow us up with there  over priced crude .

Jack , what about clean burning Algee , it's just not for frogs any more !

Permalink Reply by Jack Straw on May 1, 2012 at 5:59pm

Darn, now you are going to make me look Green; Kermit the Frog green.

It is my opinion that the only kind of biofuel that might ultimately make good sense is algae.

All algae seems to need is wetlands, sunlight and a little help from something like sewerage effluent (not in short supply) or run-off from over fertilized agricultural land (the type of fertilizer run-off that is turning portions of the Gulf of Mexico into a wasteland).

The wetlands can help support bird life - making up for some of those damned Wind farms that are chewing up and spitting out migratory birds.

Time for a rhetorical question: Why do "green energy" initiatives result in so much waste and pollution?

Although much of the oil in existing deposits resulted from organic marine (ocean) shales and marls - a very rich source of oil is lake (lacustrine) shales (the Unita crudes an example). The organic material in these lacustrine source rocks was algae. These ancient algal source rocks produce a high quality "waxy" crude.

Why reinvent the wheel? Geological history has shown us that algae can produce good crude oil. Nothing in the geologic record suggests that switch grass, creosote bush or used McDonalds French Fry Oil are a great source of oil.

Algae can grow and prosper on land (swamp land) that is not suitable for food agriculture. But it is compatible with aquaculture - fish farms, shrimp farming.

Nature (over hundreds of millions of years) has shown us the way - and it just might be algae.

But with Natural Gas at $2/mcf, Natural Gas is the cheapest, cleanest, greenest way to go.

Not electric vehicles powered by electricity from dirty coal and that electricity stored in Nickel-Cadmium Batteries (Nickel and Cadmium mined, smelted and refined in a very toxic/polluting manner) or stored in Lithium Ion Batteries (Lithium mined, smelted and refined in a very toxic/polluting manner).

Electricity produced by polluting Wind Farms (producing electricity when they feel like it, but not necessarily when you need it).

Electricity produced from Solar Farms, using solar panels produced from exotic materials
(mined, smelted and refined in a very toxic/polluting manner).
 
All IMHO.
                 JS

 

015334grltd9mPermalink Reply by 015334grltd9m on May 2, 2012 at 12:00am

Did I just hear shrimp farming?

Permalink Reply by time will tell on May 2, 2012 at 12:48am

LOL Ron

Permalink Reply by Jack Straw on May 2, 2012 at 3:35am

Yeah Ron, I threw that in for you.

JS

015334grltd9mPermalink Reply by 015334grltd9m on May 2, 2012 at 2:55pm

Ridgeman and Jack, you two seem to just get better all the time in dealing with these Amish wannabe's.  So smooth the way you outsmart them everytime.

Over in Youngstown on the local blogs, I have the Commies calling me bad names and everything else, really fun though.

Permalink Reply by time will tell on May 2, 2012 at 3:27pm

Ron the sad thing is that there is no dealing with them , there right we are wrong . I want them " anti everythingers " to come up with a real idea

of how to replace oil and gas that wouldn't leave our country open for attack by our enemies . 

Yet here we all sit hear with no answers or solutions  from them

that could really work.I would be at the front of the line for real solutions to our energy needs but that's years down the line .

I think that Williams real beef is the low signing bonus that he agreed to back in 2009 .

Permalink Reply by Bill F. on May 3, 2012 at 2:26am

Yep I guess I'm a Commie because I want the health of the people and the environment around me and anywhere they are drilling safe from contamination ! Boy do you live in a tunnel ,need to get out in the world a little more dude,your perspective is minus 1......! Yep all us people that promote renewable ,alternative energy sources are just Socialistic,Commie bastards .Man I thought we got rid of people who think like all you years ago.....To bad ...we missed .

Permalink Reply by Bill F. on May 3, 2012 at 2:19am

Yep you are a lost cause.....for sure ..! you can have all the nat gas you want right in your back yard .....!

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