Comments on: Hertz Rent a Car Launches US CNG Pilot Program

By: PA Natural Gas Companies

PA Natural Gas Companies — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:16:07 +0000

That sounds like a great program! Consumers will probably like it too since the cars will cost less to fill up. Hopefully they keep up with the program and let it go nationwide in the future!

By: Max Reid

Max Reid — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:14:58 +0000

To reduce our Oil Addiction and save the American and World economy from the $120/barrel oil, we have to work on all fronts.
Electric, CNG/LNG, Biofuels, LPG, etc

From CNG, we can also move to Hythane (which is combination of Hydrogen and Methane). Pipelines are everywhere and installing a compressor will do.

In Europe, EV makers are selling their EVs at the same price as a similar gasoline car, but they are charging around Euro 50-80 / month which is same as what a person pays in the gas station / month.

So either you buy an EV with battery as yours or rent it and pay to automaker instead of OPEC. Same concept can be applied to CNG vehicles as well.

By: James Davis

James Davis — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:13:00 +0000

An even better local alternative than CNG and get us away from foreign fossil fuel even faster, which CNG is not practical at all because it is a fossil fuel with a short lived life span that destroys our land, water and air when it is extracted and because as soon as they get you hooked on it, the price is going to skyrocket just like gasoline, is an all electric vehicle that uses solar power to charge the battery. Instead of installing those expensive CNG pumps that need replenished by long distance hauling of the fossil fuel every other day or so, install solar parks the same distance you want the CNG tanks installed. You never have to replenish the fuel on solar and the parks will pay for themselves in a very short period of time and the rest is icing on the cake, or pure profit.

By: Jim_Donahue

Jim_Donahue — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 02:02:31 +0000

Right now in New England CNG station prices are in the $2.50 t0 $2.80 range Considering where futures prices are right now those prices are blatant rip offs.

One consideration is that there is no fuel tax as their is with gasoline. That would add about 50 cents per gallon equivalent. It won't take politicians long to grasp the need to tax this fuel the same way as tax revenue falls with cng adoption. A good edict right now would be to declare cng free from taxes as internet sales are.

However even if the prices were equalized the huge advantage is with the fuel basically being 100% domestic. That would cripple oil producing economies and dramatically lower our trade deficit. The lower prices are just icing on the cake.

By: Max Reid

Max Reid — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 01:04:43 +0000

There are more than 15 million CNG powered vehicles in the World today. A fast CNG compressor should cost only around 100 K.

It can be installed every 100 miles in the first phase and then every 50 miles in the second phase and finally every 10 miles.

Natgas sells at a very low price because of the plenty of shale gas.

But automakers should also cut the price of CNG models. In Brazil, a tri-fuel vehicle (Gasoline, Ethanol, CNG) costs only $1,000 more than regular vehicle. There is no reason why a CNG Civic should cost $8K more than regular Civic.