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tahoe96

02/14/12 10:51 AM

#7035 RE: riverrock #7034

I live in a marcellus area. The drillers need to pump or they lose their leases. NG isn't going up anytime soon. There's so much of it, the price for NG has decoupled from Oil & gas for the first time.

I also have a vehicle that runs on cng & gasoline. CNG will never become a consumer option here. Driving around with a tank of pressurized fuel isn't something I would prefer to do, and I usually don't fill it with CNG because of it. If gasoline leaks, it drips out on the road. If CNG leaks, its a potential flamethrower & bomb all in the trunk of your car. If you are driving an 18 wheeler, sure, not a big deal. You're not carting around the family in an 18 wheeler. Creating a facility to pump CNG quickly is very expensive. You need to have access to a fat pipe, and build a pressurization house. The bus station near me has this, and it's as big as the convenience store next to it. And the convenience store put in a CGN pump to draw from the infrastructure next door, but the pump broke 10 years ago, and they won't fix it because it's either too expensive or too complicated. So I go to the bus station to fill if I want to.

You can buy something to fill up a tank at home or in a service depot using a typical residential line, but it takes hours to pressurize the gas.

The easier method is going to be using NG to create electricity, and plug the car in.