With all this natural gas, who needs oil?
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With all this natural gas, who needs oil?
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Re: With all this natural gas, who needs oil?
#2A group of students at my school are working on a high efficiency vehicle. They currently get 733 miles per gallon of gasoline. They are working towards an upcoming competition, where the winner usually gets around 2000 miles per gallon. These are vehicles which hold a driver. Alternatives just aren't anywhere near that efficient yet, and so it's difficult to provide compelling reasons to switch.
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#3Single page link for those who would prefer to read the article whole instead of split up into seven parts:
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Re: With all this natural gas, who needs oil?
#4A group of students at my school are working on a high efficiency vehicle. They currently get 733 miles per gallon of gasoline. They are working towards an upcoming competition, where the winner usually gets around 2000 miles per gallon. These are vehicles which hold a driver. Alternatives just aren't anywhere near that efficient yet, and so it's difficult to provide compelling reasons to switch.
How does milage fare when you factor in the weight additions and structural design changes necessary to make a vehicle street legal in the U.S.?
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#5AFAIK, by the time we'd be able to convert our whole auto infrastructure to be based around natural gas, we'd only have a couple of decades left before it was just as gone as the oil. I've heard proponents boast that there's enough of the stuff to last us a hundred years at our current consumption — but isn't the whole idea to radically increase our consumption? We easily have room to double or triple it. If this catches on, it seems likely I will have been alive to see both the beginning and the end of natural gas.
Re: With all this natural gas, who needs oil?
#6A group of students at my school are working on a high efficiency vehicle. They currently get 733 miles per gallon of gasoline. They are working towards an upcoming competition, where the winner usually gets around 2000 miles per gallon. These are vehicles which hold a driver. Alternatives just aren't anywhere near that efficient yet, and so it's difficult to provide compelling reasons to switch.
Not sure what you're talking about.
My father drives a Honda Civic GX (the only car factory built to run on CNG available to the general public).
The car gets slightly more mileage on a tank of CNG than a similar car gets on a tank of petrol (although this is a difficult comparison to make due to the differences in fuel, storage, tank size, etc.).
Point is, it goes just as far and it's much cheaper.
I don't understand your argument that these vehicles are somehow less efficient than their counterparts.
Re: With all this natural gas, who needs oil?
#7With all this renewable electricity, who needs yet another polluting fossil fuel energy source (the extraction of which, incidentally, will trash all of our aquifers)?
Re: With all this natural gas, who needs oil?
#8Natural gas can be converted to a diesel-compatible liquid, which is much more compatible with our existing auto fuel transport and retail infrastructure. We'd just need to get the motoring public to be more accepting of diesel engines.x
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#9With all this renewable electricity, who needs yet another polluting fossil fuel energy source (the extraction of which, incidentally, will trash all of our aquifers)?
One thing: transportation.
Re: With all this natural gas, who needs oil?
#10A group of students at my school are working on a high efficiency vehicle. They currently get 733 miles per gallon of gasoline. They are working towards an upcoming competition, where the winner usually gets around 2000 miles per gallon. These are vehicles which hold a driver. Alternatives just aren't anywhere near that efficient yet, and so it's difficult to provide compelling reasons to switch.
Not sure what you're talking about. My father drives a Honda Civic GX (the only car factory built to run on CNG available to the general public). The car gets slightly more mileage on a tank of CNG than a similar car gets on a tank of petrol (although this is a difficult comparison to make due to the differences in fuel, storage, tank size, etc.). Point is, it goes just as far and it's much cheaper. I don't understan…
Honda Civic GX (the only car factory built to run on CNG available to the general public)
Point is ... it's much cheaper.
I wonder if these two things might be related?