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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (70174)	1/3/2011 6:18:54 PM
From: len_chan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218741

incorporating NG as a fuel I happened to be thinking about natural gas for vehicles today (after reading an article on recent refinery margins). Anyway, I ended up trying to understand Westport Innovations. They do a lot of work in making natural gas engines, both spark ignited, and some funky combined diesel + 95% NG engines for heavy duty trucks. A pile of patents over the years. Plus, they're originally from my part of the world, Vancouver.

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (70174)	1/3/2011 6:22:36 PM
From: see clearly now	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218741

cumminswestport.com

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (70174)	1/4/2011 1:45:47 AM
From: 8bits	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218741

Maybe an engineer can chime in... I do know that in the plain old carburetor days.. it was not a big deal... I speculate the big issues with NG are 1) Distribution 2) Density With number being the biggest hurdle. One of my doctors bought a NG Honda for his daughters about 4 years ago: automobiles.honda.com They put about 25k on the car every year. He said by his calculations the addition cost for an NG outfitted car was paid for in about 2 years. (There's also tax benefits in California... the car is in his name...)