And what do we see that is able to transition to that now? Nothing! but I am sure we will burn up our food sources in order to make the eco nuts happy. Great plan.
Are you actually saying that we don't have the capability to transport, and store NG? I wonder how companies like Suburban Propane ever stayed in business all these years?
When I first started driving truck, I drove for Schwann's home delivery. ALL of their trucks ran on Propane, and were fueled by tanks right on the yard filled as needed by the local Propane company. They had adequate power, and were easy to fill safely.
Nonsense. It could be done safely, and easily.
Yeah, so? We have an entire infrastructure doing that right now with petroleum products.
Again, nonsense. I see a whole industry created providing good paying manufacturing jobs, building these tanks, Installing them, and servicing them...But yeah, you're right, its just too hard. Let's stick with the real unemployment rate around 20%. That is just great.
People could care less about densities, than they do about are they able to afford their lifestyles, and get back and forth to work, vacation, shopping without taking out a damned loan to fill the tank.
Can't speak for AZ, sounds like they torpedoed their study from the start.
I agree, long haul trucking would be a solid use as well.
Not so fast there Bill. Here is a Canadian company that has been doing it for a year now....
"10/28/2010 Going Green: Canadian Fleet Investing in Natural Gas
By Jim Park, Equipment Editor
What prompts a very successful and highly visible carrier to wade deeply into uncharted territory and invest millions in yet-to-be proven technology?
"It's the right thing to do and the right time to do it," says Claude Robert, president of privately held Groupe Robert in Boucherville, Quebec.
A good-sized company by American standards and the seventh largest motor carrier in Canada, Transport Robert intends to put 50 liquefied-natural-gas-powered trucks into service in the next 12 months, with plans to add at least 80 more by 2015. It will be the first genuine for-hire, long-haul natural-gas operation in North America, serving a 700-mile corridor between Windsor, Ontario, and Quebec City.
Currently, no LNG fueling infrastructure exists in the area. Robert is working with a Montreal-based LNG distributor, Gaz Metro, to build refueling sites at company terminals in Boucherville, Quebec, just east of Montreal, and Mississauga, Ontario, a western suburb of Toronto. Eventually, Robert sees at least six sites between Halifax, N.S. and Windsor.
"That would open the entire corridor from Atlantic Canada to the U.S. Midwest to LNG-powered trucks," he says. "If we could achieve harmonization across jurisdictions for investment tax credits, standards for refueling stations and procedures, and favorable fuel tax rates, we could reduce our reliance on diesel fuel a lot."
Going Green: Canadian Fleet Investing in Natural Gas - Truckinginfo.com
I am telling you, it is a cheaper way to transport goods, and greener as well. I think it may catch on.
I agree, but Conservation is already being enforced at any trucking outfit you go to they are all on top of ways to increase fuel milage, and decrease idle times. Conservation is a marginal savings at best, and in most cases it is really no appreciable savings at all when factoring in the draw backs of scheduling and other considerations.
We have to think bigger, and drill our own until we find what actually works.
j-mac