The natural gas car

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As gasoline prices reach nearly four dollars a gallon in the United States, new ways of cost from point A to point B, more and more attractive. While many still the hybrid electric-car train, a form of inexpensive and relatively pollution-free transport is neglected: natural gas.
Since 1990, bonds major car more natural gas cars for the government and companies have offered to fleets. Car gasproduce forty percent less hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide than gasoline cars. They are cheaper to produce than gasoline hybrid electric cars because they do not require batteries, high-tech or expensive gas and dual-power plants. Why produce more cheaply, which can be offered at lower prices to consumers, and profit margins at the same time attractive for car manufacturers themselves.
While gas prices are about three and a halfDollars per gallon, a gallon of gasoline to service stations in California (higher prices) in the nation, selling for a modest $ 2.55 a gallon this week. Consumers could get for much less from the purchase of a housing unit as FuelMaker manufacturer that the driver for your car at night from his home of natural gas at a cost of $ 1.25 a gallon to fill permits. The unit is called the "Phill", and climb to the wall of the garage of the hoe and costs about $ 4000The purchase price must be offset by factors for which a credit of $ 1,000 per federal tax, in California, another $ 2000 in local incentives.
While only 56% of oil used for gasoline production in the United States comes from wells in North America, 98% is consumed in the United States is produced in North America. Natural gas companies like Triple Diamond Energy Corp. to produce the clean combustion of fossil fuels in abundance. Reduce this type of car that could help the nationDependence on foreign oil.
Natural gas vehicles are currently sold in Europe, Asia, South America, and elsewhere in the world. General Motors is also working on new models in other parts of the world are sold, with the hope to expand their consumer base.
Why not in America? Well, there are only about 1,500 gas stations in the United States and, while there are 150,000 vehicles in the country, now the automaker in the United States has no plans to launch the new production. United StatesManufacturers claim that does not sell easily, but they need to forget the almost 5 million gas-powered cars in the natural world.
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