NGV

I've been considering CNG vehicles for years but the price of fuel has only recently made the idea feasible. I'm originally from Oklahoma and assumed CNG would be available everywhere. Now I live in Tennessee and find there is no infrastructure to support CNG here. I'm checking on the availability of a Phill unit but again there's no local market. I called the gas company and the local Honda dealership and neither had any idea what I was talking about.
Looking for help to get started...

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Permalink Reply by Lee K. Shuster on August 3, 2008 at 12:00pm

Tony,

I'd suggest you look beyond your own backyard. Use the internet! Where there's a dedicated will -- There's usually people that have been there done that. And they want to help people like you!

Check out: www.cngchat.com

CLICK HERE

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Permalink Reply by Randy Brown on September 26, 2008 at 11:51pm

Live chat with Mr. pickens just ended. I submitted about 15 questions. None of them was answered. Here are some of them...

Mr. Pickens, Clean Energy has acquired Fuelmaker's Vehicle Refueling appliance for the Home called PHILL. Will you make it affordable? $6000 to get it installed in my home prices it out of the reach of most.
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How many homes are currently using natural gas to heat their homes? How many of those families would buy a Vehicle Refueling appliance for the Home if it was affordable?
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For Walmart to setup CNG stations wouldn't it take a demand from consumers first? Where will the demand come from if it isn't from those who have CNG cars. I'd be driving a CNG car right now if Clean Energy's PHILL, a Vehicle Refueling appliance for the Home, was affordable.
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The Pickens Plan gave me no hope until I saw that I could fuel my CNG car at home using PHILL a Vehicle Refueling appliance for the Home. I was crushed to find out it would cost $6000 to have it installed in my garage. Will you make it affordable?
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Your company owns PHILL a "Vehicle Refueling appliance" (VRA) for the Home. If you're serious about getting us off of foreign oil how can you be selling PHILL for so much?

I need answers to these questions. I'm ready to be the "CNG Evangelist" of Fort Wayne if I have a PHILL that I can afford.

If you feel like me lets be friends and put pressure on Mr. Pickens to make PHILL affordable.

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Permalink Reply by Randy Brown on September 23, 2008 at 3:55pm

How about setting up your own dealership for PHILL

Let's put some pressure on "Clean Energy" that just acquired "PHILL" and see if we can get them to lower the price. Also, they need to open up the "Dealerships" for PHILL to start up companies that have the motivation to get PHILL into every household in America.

Here are the guys to contact...

Jeff Harju
Marketing Manager
FuelMaker Corporation
jharju@fuelmaker.com
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Bruce Russell
Clean Energy
brussell@cleanenergyfuels.com