Mileage (mpg) Using Ethanol Seen 20% Higher Than EPA Says - Bloomberg

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40. Natural Gas has been used in souther Europe for decades

A coworker's brother had a NG kit put in his car for $2,000....and I've explored it for my car - would be about the same, 2 grand.

There really aren't any 'engineering challenges'. You put a pressurized tank in the trunk, and presto - you've got a dual fuel vehicle.

NG has become popular with people who off-road in their rock climbing vehicles - no problems with pickups in the fuel tank going dry when the vehicle is at a steep angle.

It is also becoming enormously popular with trucking fleets. They are realizing radical savings on maintenance, since the NG burns so clean and doesn't foul the oil. The oil change interval can be quadrupled, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Distribution is actually incredibly easy. Wherever there is a NG utility for heating, you can make a station. My company teamed up with a contractor, in an effort to procure and develop a local site, to become a NG fueling station for a factory trucking fleet. Our site lost out...but we were not at all limited in our site selection, by distribution problems. In fact, I can't think of many products in this world that have such a well developed distribution. BTW, wherever you live, if you google it, you can probably find a car fueling station....these are usually cardlock style stations, often at the offices of the local gas company.

I'm sorry but you last paragraph just struck me as not true at all. Ethanol is most definitely not cheaper than gasoline. For years federal excise tax subsidized gasohol over gasoline artificially, and any significant increase in ethanol use has been met with rising corn prices and shuttered ethanol plants. The whole reason you don't see millions of people using e85 is precisely because ethanol costs more. Period.