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- Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:
- I drive a dedicated CNG Ford Crown Victoria and have been involved in improving Utah State laws concerning Alternative Fuel Vehicles.
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Just Drive a Dedicated NGV - and say "Goodbye to Gasoline Forever!"
My 1996 Crown Vic was an factory-built and engineered by Ford, it's a dedicated Natural Gas Vehicle not a conversion fuel by Compressed Natural Gas (CNG).
While it uses a Ford 4.6-L 2-valve modular V8 it's factory horsepower rating is 180 (SAE) hp. This is down roughly 10-15% from it's gasoline-fueled brother. This however does not hinder it from towing my 4500 # boat in the high altitude (8000 - 9000 ft ASL) environs of the Wasatch Mountains (Utah). Plenty of power for most drivers,… Continue
While it uses a Ford 4.6-L 2-valve modular V8 it's factory horsepower rating is 180 (SAE) hp. This is down roughly 10-15% from it's gasoline-fueled brother. This however does not hinder it from towing my 4500 # boat in the high altitude (8000 - 9000 ft ASL) environs of the Wasatch Mountains (Utah). Plenty of power for most drivers,… Continue
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The only way to insure the success of this historical effort is to build our numbers to monumental and unignorable heights. CAN YOU HELP?
Would you please congratulate our newest 100CLUB member, Chris Jones-
http://www.push.pickensplan.com/profile/ChrisJones86
Chris joined Pickens Plan over the weekend, and already has 150 signed pledges from standing in line at the polls for early voting! He is going back again today. Another Pickens Hero.
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Kim
My 1996 Ford factory-built (OEM) NGV is dedicated. It and the Civic GX standalone in the Alternative Fuel Vechicle (AFV) market, at least as production passenger cars.
I've heard of a few Bi-Fuel Vics that were third-party conversions done mostly in the Northwest.
Personally, I prefer dedicated, as I'm never tempted to burn foreign gasoline. The dedicated NGV's seem to have fewer problems and can be optimized for a single fuel source - namely CH4 (the primary hydrocarbon in Nat Gas.)
Is your Crown Vic bi-fuel or CNG only?
Go to this website and look at CNGprices.com nationwide.
or
http://www.cngprices.com/index.php
You could also search the forum on cnghat.com (a Utah based website with national coverage) for their members' views on TBP's history in this national market. ( I warn you it gets ugly).
This issue will confront us VERY soon in Utah. I worry that we will need to lobby the Utah PSC beg them to keep things in balance.
I e-mailed an invitation yesterday to over 250 people and friends, most of which are not Plan members. Hopefully we will get a good turn out.
Now that we know that Questar will not be at our meeting, I'd like to ask you make some comments about your experience with the CNG community as part of our guest panel discussion. I know you have the background and will do a great job bringing us all up to speed on where things stand.
Thanks for your willingness to share.
Best Regards,
Randall Johnson
Pleasant Grove
I look forward to meeting you in person.
Best Regards,
--rj
We talked on the phone about a month ago, before I joined the PickensPlan. As you probably know by now, we're having our first Utah chapter meeting at the state capitol building this thursday evening. I want to especially invite you to be there. You have a tremendous amount of information and experience to offer. CNG is an important part of the plan and probably the best way Utah can contribute to the effort.
We plan on having some state government representatives present and hopefully someone from the governor's office. It is likely that we will also have a Questar executive there. I hope ou will be able to attend,
Best Regards,
Randall Johnson
Pleasant Grove
Thank you for posting the resources.
David
Energybloggers.com
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