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The Prius costs an average of $3.25 per mile driven over a lifetime of 100,000 miles - the expected lifespan of the Hybrid. The Hummer, on the other hand, costs a more fiscal $1.95 per mile to put on the road over an expected lifetime of 300,000 miles.Until natural-gas prices rise, Pickens said his wind farm and most others in the country will not go forward because electricity from gas plants will be more economical. Still, he was confident prices would rise.
With the economy in turmoil and a possible recession on the horizon, it's possible oil prices will continue to soften as demand for fuel drops in a general business slowdown, but they (prices) will come back even stronger.
Arkansas Oklahoma Gas Corp. hopes to soon provide natural gas to customers for their vehicles powered by natural gas.
With the country importing 70 percent of the oil we use, transportation and municipal officials met at the Transportation Management Association Bucks offices recently to learn the advantages of compressed natural gas.
What will power your car a decade from now? Billionaire T. Boone Pickens is betting big that it will be compressed natural gas.
As gasoline prices and air pollution have increased, so has the interest in cleaner burning fuels such as natural gas . . .. . Individuals looking to begin using natural fuels can convert some vehicles to use natural gas.
Construction work has started on the 166-mile segment across Indiana's midsection of a pipeline that will carry natural gas from Colorado into the Midwest.
One way to move toward that goal is to convert more vehicles to run on compressed natural gas. It burns far cleaner than our gasoline-powered engines, and, perhaps best of all, it is plentiful in the United States.
After all, they sell them in numerous foreign countries with 19 different models available in Canada alone, and there are some 7 MILLION of them riding the roads throughout the world.
Natural gas reserves in the U.S. rose last week but are 4.2 percent below the same period last year, a government report said Thursday.
South Jersey Industries plans to complete a $40 million pipeline improvement project by 2010 and still anticipates growth in new customers and casino-related revenue despite the current economic downturn.
Natural gas is one form of energy being touted as one of the best ways to wean America from its dependence on foreign oil.
That brings us to another entry in the auto industry's ongoing research and development of green-technology: compressed natural gas (CNG).
His message, both on the tube and in a Tuesday full-page Wall Street Journal ad, involves the desirability of dramatically increasing the percentage of our vehicles powered by compressed natural gas (CNG).
Billionaire hedge fund manager T. Boone Pickens spoke about the beleaguered U.S. economy, a prospective bailout and natural gas.
.. could play a major role in expanding the natural gas fueling infrastructure in the U.S., according to NGVAmerica.
Rhetoric aside, CNG has enormous potential, and unlike hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles or electrics or PHEVs, it's one with very few engineering hurdles to jump.
There's no shortage of explanations for the record rise in oil prices. The trick comes in working out which is right.
A serious oil supply crisis is looming, which could push prices above $200 a barrel, a think tank has warned.
Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE: CHK), the nation's largest natural gas producer and most active driller, announced today that it has initiated a public education campaign called CNG NOW designed to promote the greater usage of America's clean-burning natural gas as a transportation fuel.
Natural Gas production is going up by a lot in the United States. This was noted at Peak Oil Debunked about a month ago. Natural gas production can be ramped up by nearly 50% by 2020.
Natural gas has a lot going for it. Cleaner and cheaper than oil, less politically charged than nuclear power, and located domestically, it's hands down the most viable choice for long-term energy policy. US power plants know this and consequently have begun switching to natural gas power in droves.
In the early 1990s, all three major American automakers started building clean and efficient natural gas vehicles. But when a new federal law failed to create an expected guaranteed market, the momentum died.
The best deal on fuel in the United States right now might be here in Utah, where people are waiting in lines to pay the equivalent of 87 cents a gallon.
In the early 1990s, all three major American automakers started building clean and efficient natural gas vehicles. But when a new federal law failed to create an expected guaranteed market, the momentum died.
High gas prices are leading to a significant increase in the number of vehicles in Utah being fueled by natural gas.There is no statewide rule restricting home conversions.
Currently there are only about 150,000 CNG (compressed natural gas) cars and trucks operating in the U.S. out of some 5 million worldwide, mostly in public vehicle fleets.
As for all the doom and gloom about America's domestic natural gas supply being 'thin,' well . . check out this story from Reuters on July 30:
If China used the same amount per capita as parsimonious Japan, Chinese consumption would total more than 18 billion barrels a year, an amount that dwarfs our country's 7.5 billion barrels.
The notion of spending taxpayers' money to help fill U.S. roads with natural-gas-fueled vehicles faces a major test when voters in California, the nation's largest auto market, go to the polls in November.
Petrol prices are set to fall this autumn, but David Strahan argues that oil is now so scarce that it may never be affordable again.
High gasoline prices might be painful to consumers but they're not a destroyer of wealth. They're just a transfer of wealth from one party to another. In the case of gasoline, much of that transfer of wealth is from U.S. consumers to the Middle East. In the case of CNG, wealth does not exit the U.S. economy.
The green-tinged former oil baron T. Boone Pickens is such a fan of his plan to have natural gas power a third of U.S. vehicles, he's joining with a fund to build and launch a new natural gas vehicle for U.S. roads.
That's the case being made by Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon, who recently sang the virtues of natural gas before Congress: It's cheaper and cleaner than other fossil fuels, and available in vast quantities right in the US.
U.S. natural-gas prices could be in for a fall next year, when additional output from elsewhere in the world should enter the market.
Interest has been growing around the world in the potential of natural gas, the cleanest of fossil fuels, as a way to power passenger cars. Now, in an era of expensive gasoline, even some Americans are considering the possibility, if it might save them money.
Imagine paying as little as $1.25 a gallon to run your car. Not for gasoline. Instead, you would pump a fuel that's readily available, North American-produced and virtually pollution-free.
The natural gas industry has been turning up the heat this summer in the nation's capital. Advocates are explaining to lawmakers that while oil is expensive, scarce and imported, there's enough natural gas in the U.S. supply to last more than 100 years.
The Alaska Senate on Aug. 1 approved a state license for TransCanada Corp. to pursue federal certification for a 1,715-mile natural gas pipeline from Alaska North Slope to the Alberta Hub in Canada.
When the city of Lake Jackson started fueling garbage trucks and other city vehicles with compressed natural gas eight years ago, it was to lessen air pollution, not save money.
General Motors Corp. (GM) may add natural gas to the arsenal of energy alternatives it hopes will one day make gasoline a scarcity on U.S. roads.
The United States has over 100 years worth of natural gas supplies, and forecasters have consistently low-balled the amount of the clean-burning fuel trapped in unconventional places like shale rock, an industry group said on Wednesday.
As West Virginia's natural gas industry grows, producers want to move more gas across and out of the state. Now, Dominion Transmission is proposing a $1 billion project to help get that gas to eastern markets.
America is at the beginning of 'a great natural gas boom' that can help wean the country off imported oil and reduce carbon emissions, Chesapeake Energy Chief Executive Aubrey McClendon told lawmakers Wednesday.
Pushing wind power in Wichita and Topeka, billionaire oil magnate T. Boone Pickens brought his crusade for energy independence to Kansas.
Crude oil and natural gas prices have pushed the Oklahoma Energy Index to new heights.The latest index, which was taken in April and reported Wednesday, shows a 5-percent increase from March and was 13 percent ahead of April 2007.
Natural gas stored in the U.S. rose last week but is still 3.1% below the five-year average for this time of year, a government report said Thursday.
More Utah mechanics are in training to help meet a swelling demand to convert cars to natural gas.
U.S. natural gas reserves are far more plentiful than previously estimated, says an industry study being released today - a discovery that heralds a potential remedy to the energy crisis.
Earlier this month, as oil prices rose and car buyers ignored big trucks and SUVs in favor of small cars, Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens called on the U.S. government to chip away at the country's dependence on foreign oil, in part, by having America's cars run on compressed natural gas (CNG).
Although compressed natural gas has not caught on quickly as an alternative fuel source for automobiles in the United States, it will likely soon gain momentum because of soaring gasoline prices.
Since nuclear power plants have become unpopular (due to security fears after 3-Mile Island and Chernobyl nuclear power plant accidents), coal burning power plants also became unpopular (due to concerns about global warming), and hydro-electric power generation has almost reached its natural upper limit.
