Uh - what ban??


State and city vehicle and bus fleets have been using natural gas vehicles for literally decades now. Hell even our garbage trucks here in Seattle run on natural gas.

 

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They aren't any more dangerous than gasoline powered vehicles. There have been thousands of them on the road for decades and no reports of explosions yet.

The major drawback to CNG vehicles is refueling. There just aren't that many places you can do it. You can get a system to refuel at home (it compresses natural gas and fills your tank), but it's slow (up to 6 hours to refill your tank), and expensive to install.

The other major strike against it is the tanks are HEAVY and they take up a LOT of room.

But the advantages are much cleaner operation, much cheaper to run, we can provide all the natural gas required for every vehicle on the roads in the USA...from domestic sources.

natural gas leaks are dangerous. I cant see how if we put hundreds of thousands of these on the roads how it wouldnt end badly for the drivers, potential 1st responders, ems and firefighters. Going to natural gas leaks are more dangerous for us than going to a structure fire. Those tanks they make for the vehicles better be damn solid.

 

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Those are leaks from continuous feeds of gas - so yea if they leak they're incredibly dangerous because it goes right on leaking.


A CNG tank? It leaks for a few seconds then it's over with. All gone.

 

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I'm pretty sure it was that super secret imaginary bill that Bush passed to help Big Oil

Id rather stick with my car.

 

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There are MILLIONS of CNG vehicles on the roads all over the world. They are less of a hazard for fires from fuel than gasoline vehicles. Their tanks are designed to withstand more than 3000PSI and to be emptied and refilled daily for many years. Breaching those tanks is nigh on impossible under any conceivable accident scenario that would not also completely destroy (and engulf in flames) a gasoline or diesel powered vehicle. Hell, the tanks are required to be built in such a way (in the US) that they will withstand a point blank shot from a 30 caliber shell.

CNG is harder to set alight than gasoline vapor, gasoline burns hotter, diesel burns even hotter than gas. It also takes about 4 times higher a concentration of natural gas in sea level atmosphere to become flammable than it does of gasoline.

CNG vehicles are safer than gasoline powered ones....in regard to fuel safety that is.

You're a serious retard.

 

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It's always the same. Fiscal liberals give away corporate welfare. Time goes by and fiscal liberals forget why they did it. Then fiscal liberals try to blame someone else for the corporate welfare.

I'm sure a portion of the corporate welfare for oil companies came from Republicans, but plenty of it came from Democrats too. In both cases though it came from fiscal liberals in the parties.

 

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thats funny Obama is trying to get 4billion a year in tax subsides for big oil repealed...guess which party is fighting against it.


plz show me where the the democrats have fought against the republicans to give or maintain tax cuts for the oil industry.

 

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