Tom,
CNG is still a gas vapor, as opposed to LNG, which would be Liquified Nat.
Gas.
How are they selling a vapor in gallons? No stores around here that I've
found,
so I can't go check into it. What's the refilling like?
Do they provide the tanks and conversion kits? I'd still have plenty of
power
since my 3/4ton has a 8.1 liter gasser. My other is a diesel, so it
wouldn't work.
DonO
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From: "Tom Davenport" <t...@comcast.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 10:39 PM
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My truck is one of many white Ford F-150 that are on the road with the CNG
sticker on the back. They stem from a law (now defunct) requiring
government fleets to have twenty percent of the their vehicles use a "green"
fuel. Most used either propane or CNG (compressed natural gas). All of
them started life as conventional gasoline engines that were prepped for CNG
conversion, and they will run on either gasoline or CNG. The law lapsed,
and as the trucks aged they were sold from the fleets.
The truck has more power when running on gasoline and better mpg. I get 18
mpg on the freeway with gasoline, only 14 to 15 with natural gas. I don't
know what my city mileage would be with gasoline since I have never tried
it, but with natural gas, it is pretty dismal... around 11 mpg. But with
gas costing over $3.00 a gallon, and CNG at 93 cents a gallon, it is like
driving a 8-cylinder truck getting 33 mpg!
There are several downsides to owning CNG. As Don pointed out, it is hard
to pack much natural gas in the tank. Mine is 13 gallons, but I have never
been able to fill it with more than 9. How much you can actually put in a
tank depends entirely on the current pressure of the refilling station .
Sometimes the pressure has been so low that I could only get five gallons
into an empty 13 gallon tank! Not only that, CNG stations are few and far
between. There are only three between Ogden and Salt Lake City, (but one of
them I go past every day on my way to work).
The cost of natural gas varies widely from state to state. In Utah, all of
the CNG stations are run buy Questar, our natural gas provider. They are
located at regular gas stations, but I pay by credit card directly to
Questar.
I bought the truck primarily for fishing. I can get to all of my most
frequented reservoirs using natural gas, and it pulls my boat FAR better
than my old 4 cylinder Toyota Tacoma!
On May 18, 2010, at 6:24 PM, Allan Fish wrote:
Tom said,
bought a truck that uses CNG so not only can I go fishing green, but I
can go cheap! (currently $.93 cents a gallon)
Interesting to look at the prices of CNG across the country. ALL of the
Utah stations are 93｢/gallon.
All of the Indiana stations are $1.73 (and few and far between).
California stations ranged from $1.09 San Jose Unified School District - a
flet operation) to $4.25 per gallon (Napa - Redwood Chevron).
Source: http://www.cngprices.com/
a.
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Allan Fish
Greenwood, IN
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