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A friend of my younger son sprayed his trunk full of that spray on bed liner stuff,then got out his lighter to see if he's missed anything. Only thing missing was enough brain cells not to do something like that.
 
Saw a guy do that with a natural gas truck a couple days ago. He lived. Was a bit too late with the pic tho. He was checking the outside gage because his truck didn't run. He got towed out.
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Jon f, I have wanted to ask this for a long time. Is N.G. really a viable fuel for the big rigs? I have advocated for many years now that it should be used for everything except that service. I am very interested in hearing what you say and others who are in the business say. Thanks!
 
I would get fired for telling this but to answer your question, NO, natural gas is not viable source for running any vehicle and here's why, first off let me say that I work with a natural gas company and have been in the business 38 years now...

Our company pays $12,000 per conversion to run natural gas on our company vehicles, it will never pay for itself. Most used vehicles owned by people are not worth the investment and should you buy a new vehicle look at the added cost for he conversion. Also you will need a compressor at your home or business if natural gas is available, the cheapest "slow fill" compressor that I'm aware of is $20,000 and your looking at about 7 hours to fill up, best to do it over night.

We put in a fast fill compressor a couple of years back at a truck stop, cost was a little over $1,000,000, you can buy a lot of gasoline rather than waste it on natural gas. Our vehicles rub extremely well on NG but it's just an image thing, the consumer just can't afford to throw money out the door for it. And right now gasoline is at $1.81 per gallon in my area....
 
Grayrider -- While I already knew the answer was 'no', I had NO IDEA of the numbers involved!! Thank you, sir, for sharing that info with us!
 
Thanks for the reply grayrider! Wow, very interesting! It burns so much cleaner I thought it would be used one day, guess not. What if cars and light trucks were made at factory and there were service stations for it? Shell has a few scattered along I-10 in Texas & Louisiana. Could the everyday person fill their own vehicle??? Safely??? I am a process operator in the largest refinery in North America so by advocating for it's use I am not helping my industry either... my units make base lube oil, everything needs lubrication!!!
 
We loaded 30k gal. lpg tank cars in less than 3 hrs. with small ingersoll recips. and that was loading 8 at a time.
 
We have one Chevy 2500 4x4 NG truck that was purchased new from the factory, it's gave us problems from day one, currently the truck is only running on gasoline due to a problem with the NG wiring harness being messed up and no replacement available for it, the rest of the fleet that has conversion kits runs okay, they can run NG or gasoline by pushing a button, when we retire the trucks every 4 or 5 years due to high mileage I just don't see where the NG was justifiable since it cost so much to install and the price of the compressor station needed to fill up, initially we had a slow fill compressor at the office that took 7 hours to fill up, we have swapped out to another compressor now that can fill up a vehicle in about 45 minutes, I think I heard through the grapevine we paid around $80,000 for it "used", I don't believe I'll see widespread use of NG on vehicles in my lifetime unless gasoline went upwards of $15 a gallon....
 
Some of the propane companies around here are going back to LP fuel instead of diesel. The drivers say they have plenty of power(single axle bob tails)if they could just keep the computer side working. NG is just to expensive for the pumps, and who wants a extremely high pressure tank under your seat.
 
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