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Anonymous-0 · Sep 17, 2010

Natural gas ,Boone Pickens has the answer.There is plenty of natural gas to run our vehicles but it is hard to find a retail outlet. I was going to buy a natural gas vehicle, but I found out I had to go to another state to fill the tank.

paul · Sep 17, 2010

I think even Boone has moved on to other things by now?

The pipeline blowouts of late kinda underscore how ng has it's probems too.

Those of us in ag see the problems last year - when corn came in real wet, there wasn't enough ng pressure to keep the driers going in many places. When it got cold enough for people to turn their house fuirnace on, the coops were asked to shut off their driers.

Not enough infrastrucure.

We'd need to what, tripple our pipelines to try to keep up with transportation?

Who's going to foot that bill?

Only works well for short trips anyhow, very hard to store enough ng in a mobile tank to go more than 50 miles.

Sounds nice, until you look at the details, and ask the hard questions.

We need to explore options, and ng is one of them,but it won't help those of us out on the prairie in the rural areas.

--->Paul

Mike (WA) · Sep 17, 2010

Probably will never be a practical solution, because of the high pressures and low cruising range- too dangerous for the average idiot to keep from killing himself and others, burning down or blowing up the filling station, etc. Use the natural gas to generate electricity, and use same in plug-in hybrids (will handle your normal commute on electricity only, but you have a gas or diesel engine for long trips when needed). That's the only "green" solution that makes sense to me.

camju · Sep 17, 2010

natural gas was real cheap here, and then everyone (alot)got it hooked up tripled in 2 years .You can feel the cursin going on.

MarkB_MI · Sep 18, 2010

Even with current demand, the US is a net importer of natural gas.

Anonymous-0 · Sep 18, 2010

There is a lot of gas here in NY but the enviromentalists have shut down drilling.

VaTom · Sep 18, 2010

Got trees there?

"Keith indicates that a cord of logs brings no more than $27 in most local markets these days, but he claims that if wood is used to fuel his pickup, a cord could be worth as much as $900 with gas prices around $3.00/gal. But since the wood he uses for fuel is residue from his sawmill, as far as he is concerned, it’s free. And while most of us are concerned about the current cost of gasoline every time we get into our cars to go somewhere, Keith doesn’t think twice about going for a leisure drive every Sunday afternoon, in addition to putting his pickup to work during the week."
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