I heard a news piece on the radio tonight about natural gas as a transportation fuel. Navistar will start building a medium truck that runs on natural gas; heavy truck production will begin next year. The fuel cost is currently $1.50 less than diesel. But where to fuel up? Clean Energy Fuels Cor…

I still think the price difference between nat gas and gasoline will not continue as it is when natural gas begins to feel the pressure of increased use in transportation. It may always have a structural advantage and cost less per btu, but the cost will be as volatile, moving up and down as US ene…

The “fracking” and horizontal drilling techniques that have been pioneered over the last few years have opened up VAST new N.G. supplies…These new supplies are desperately looking for a market…Power plants are one, and motor fuel is the next… Motorists who also have residential gas service can refu…

@Caddyman Caddyman is right; we now have a WORLDWIDE gas glut. Both Canada and the US, as well as other countries, are now producing prodigious quantities of “tight gas” , or shale gas, and other conventioanl gas producers are building Liquified Natural gas (LNG) plants for export. Transportation …

It is still my opinion, that in the energy field, supply and demand forces in determining prices do not exist in a vacuume as the only variables. We have a glut of gasoline NOW and are selling this surplus overseas…prices are soaring still, because there is NO competition. If the same energy compan…

Well Dagosa the Military basically uses one high grade blend of Kerosene for everything(including the motor cycles which makes good sense(kinda like operating on Zulu time).The Air Force has experimented with and certified a bioblend for use in some of its Jets. The “gas” motor fuels would present …

Making gas & oil a regulated utility rather than a commodity would help stabilize prices tremendously IMHO. As it is now every time a mouse breaks wind in the mideast speculators see it as a reason to raise prices. A good thing for them since they are also probably heavy into oil company stock.

@dagosa Unlike natural gas, there is no glut of oil worldwide, and the $120 international price of oil dictates what you pay for gasoline, not an excess refining capacity in the USA. Oil is an internationally traded commodity and Americans are lucky to have to import 50% of their crude oil. And th…

Yep, the government is GREAT at running things. Last time we got rid of price controls, guess what happened? Prices dropped and supplies went up. And regulate natural gas prices? When they’re the lowest they’ve been in years? Why? Sorry folks, we don’t have the ability in the US to dictate pric…

Nor should we try. I seem to recall that price and market government controls were tried in another country. The USSR.

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Another option the military is looking into is GTL (gas to liquids) where diesel is made from natural gas. Uses a lot of natural gas (about 10,000 cubic feet per barrel of diesel), but the product is pretty high quality (no sulfur).

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