Ngas as a transportation fuel

[dan_s]

"UPS will spend $50 million to build nine new liquefied natural gas refueling stations over the next year, including one in Houston, the company said this week. The decision adds to previous plans to build four stations by the end of next year, meaning that the shipping company will now build 13 new LNG refueling stations by the end of 2014. UPS also plans to buy 1,000 LNG-powered tractors to move its loads of boxes and packaged goods, the company said. The decision comes as corporate fleets increasingly look to natural gas as a way to cut their fuel costs and reduce carbon emissions. Diesel, the primary fuel used to power high-horsepower engines, can be more than $1 more expensive than a comparable quantity of natural gas. A gallon of diesel in Houston was selling Thursday for about $3.68, according to AAA. The price for a gallon-equivalent of compressed natural gas, which is cheaper than liquefied natural gas, was selling in Houston for as low as $1.67 on Thursday, according to CNGNow.com."

We need to see a lot more of this. If our government could get its head out of its ass, it would focus on how to make Ngas a much larger part of our transportation fuel mix. Of course, the Ag Lobby won't let them. It would mean we'd have to quit pushing biofuels as the answer to all of our problems. The money this government has pissed away on pushing corn based ethanol is insane.

[gjames]

Amen Brother!!!