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Centralia, MO | The factor that always rises in these conversion and alternate fuel ideas is convenient availability. An engine can be designed to burn any combustible fuel. The reason gas and diesel prevail today is that they are both easily stored, transported, and transferred with minimal danger in all weather conditions. If someone starts building a semi powered by natural gas or whatever it is virtually worthless until a nationwide network of filling stations is built. What will it take to make a cheap and easy and SAFE natural gas filling station? You have a chicken and egg situation. The filling stations won't be built before the trucks and vice versa. We've had the same problem with E85 to some degree. Also on the Glenn Beck program he talked about a hydrogen car he was driving made by GM. He stated that it was a good car but hydrogen raises the same filling station problem. He also stated that in talking with the GM people they expressed the opinion that a company like GM could probably only live through a conversion once. If we decide that gas is dead and hydrogen is the future, GM could probably afford to convert their production to the new fuel once but if it didn't work out after a few years it would probably kill the company. | |
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T Bone Pickens and Nat Gas Converson ?
