Why aren't more CNG cars available? Why aren't more diesel Trucks converted to CNG?

Question

Why isn't CNG the way to go if it is so abundant and cleaner?

This just makes too much sense.. WE should all demand CNG vehicles

Write Congress. DEMAND it!

Answer 1

re the engines you can convert from diesel to CNG/LNG.  The cost is $100,000, can I sell you 2?

http://www.cumminswestport.com/pdf/CWI-N...

CNG is a limited resource, CNG takes about 4% of its energy just to put it into a tank.  CNG is dangerous.

Why not demand we all switch to bicycles.  Do you understand that every time environuts demand something, it hurts us in the long run?  Google MTBE sometime and learn a lesson.

Answer 2

CNG isn't practical for heavy duty vehicles yet.  Plus there's not enough stations. And then they dont tell you the particulate matter of CNG exhaust is to tiny you're most likely to absorb it into your lungs.

personal experience-

CNG engine milage SUCKS BIGTIME. I'm lucky if I get 300 mi out of my CNG Schoolbus I own! Compare that with 6-700mi with a 100gal diesel bus with a particle trap. I have to fuel every day, in some situations fuel up 2x a day! Then I have to spend fuel to go get it which could be 20 mi from my destination...waste of money.

Answer 3

I ran a search last month for places that I could buy, CNG,  for your information it is not even available in many parts of the country, here in Oregon, no one has Natural Gas, in central CA. where I plan to move, there is one place in each major town and the price varied by up to a dollar from one town to the next one.

I also looked into the cost of conversion. while you can buy some vehicles that are already converted, there are not that many, and with the cost of conversion you can buy an inexpensive new car.

Answer 4

Sorry it is very expensive to change from diesel to CNG. Near impossible. Yes demand that the  Gov. Eng. more things. The EPA work on smog cost us about 17% in efficiency.  

Answer 5

Like everything else, there are problems at every level. If I gave you a CNG car today, where would you go to fill it up? If you went to the next town, where would you fill up to get back home?

We already know that when an item becomes a fuel, the price will go sky high. Look at corn and bio fuels! Two years ago it was fairly easy to find a gallon of bio fuel. It cost pennies to create and sold for about the same as gasoline. Now that it has been 'mandate' to be a part of the mix in gasoline in many places, the price of corn has risen to the point that it cost as much as gasoline to produce and the profit is zero to pennies on the gallon.

The upshot is that corn is an ingredient (corn syrup) of quite a few food products so now these food products have doubled and tripled in price.

Be careful what you demand of the government. You just might get what you asked for.

At the current time and situation, CNG makes no sense at all. To make it viable, we need to create the infrasturcture that is not there now.

Answer 6

CNG has no where near the power of diesel,   If you want to see you cost of everything double, keep taking about things that you don't understand.