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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Why not just use nat gas as a motor fuel ?

Too difficult to transport, store, and refuel a car with natural gas. CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) has its supporters, but it is very low energy density compared to liquid gasoline, so your range is severely limited. Having to compress it to a very high PSI makes it slow to refuel.

It is used in some fleet vehicles, but not something that grandma can do herself at the filling station.

8 posted on 05/02/2011 6:55:40 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Yo-Yo
A gallon of gasoline is higher BTU than a ‘gallon’ of nat gas by about 35 percent but the plentiful supply and other advantages should cancel some of this out. I'd bet a method could be devised to speed the fueling time much more cheaply than the cost of turning it into a liquid.
11 posted on 05/02/2011 7:09:36 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Eh ?)
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