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To: i-node who wrote (603407)	3/12/2011 8:36:58 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573857

": CNG is clearly -- by a wide margin -- the best avenue for the country to stop our foreign oil dependence quickly," dreamer......but why don't the repub's support Boone Pickens who was spending a lot of his own money trying to push such a program.....where is he now?

To: i-node who wrote (603407)	3/12/2011 9:19:24 PM
From: steve harris	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573857

"Steve's theory" CNG almost gives you the range of existing gasoline cars, not the 40 mile limit required of Central Planning, denying freedom to it's people... Next

To: i-node who wrote (603407)	3/13/2011 12:52:06 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1573857

"So, why in hell are liberals not INSISTING this one-termer nitwit in WH act on it?" Dave, you are the only one insisting ANYONE do anything about it, and are using it in a purely partisan way, having been totally SILENT on the issue all through the Bush admin. NO ONE is with you. The vehicle conversions are cheap, easily within the budgets of most people - hell, I considered buying a used converted pickup truck 20 years ago. I passed, because the huge high-pressure tank took up a third of the pickup's bed, and at the time, there were only two places in town to get it filled, no weekends or evenings! alternativefuels.about.com Pretty much NO ONE is doing it..

To: i-node who wrote (603407)	3/13/2011 2:01:17 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573857

NG as a transportation fuel makes sense in a lot of ways. The o&g companies (and Pickens is part of that industry) who hold lots of ng reserves would love more use of natural gas. What's holding it up? I think the problem is the infrastructure investments that would be needed ... in advance of / in anticipation of market demand. They need assurance affordable supply will be there. Looking at ng historically, its been a boom and bust business with big price rises and crashes - the people who'd have to make the investments don't like that. Plus they know the liberal environmentalists are scheming to outlaw the hydraulic fracing that makes much of our ng usable. Example: Message 27232671

To: i-node who wrote (603407)	3/14/2011 8:33:31 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573857

So, why in hell are liberals not INSISTING this one-termer nitwit in WH act on it? You are a walking contradiction...you attack him for interfering with the business process and you attack him for not doing it... make up your mixed up mind... That said, it should be clear that the infrastructure for CGN vehicles is not there...you can convert any car to CNG...it's not even that expensive...but where do you fuel up on the road? The volt on the other hand is a very clever design...if you took that partisan bug out of your ass...it's all electric on short range and gasoline fueled on long trips... Al