Save on gas by buying a used vehicle and converting it.

Do you have any details?

I have been thinking about this, but since most later model vehicles use fuel injection, it complicates the issue a bit. It was traditionally easy and reasonably cheap with the older carbureted cars.

I found one website touting a system for fuel injected engines, but it seems to be a bit expensive.

You can also do CNG.

Yes it is expensive. But that's because it's adding a completely new fuel system to the vehicle, right from the fuel tank, fill-up port, regulator, injectors and new injector ports, gauges, master switch and finally a computer board to run the whole system. That's why new vehicles are so much more expensive than one with just a gasoline fuel system. Buying a used vehicle in good condition and adding the system as an aftermarket one, means you don't have to drive the vehicle for

40,000 miles before you start getting a savings on fuel. You start getting the savings immediately. Does that make sense?

ya but, cng pumps are not as many around as propane pumps. You're allowed to fill your own cng tank but an attendant has to do it for propane fill ups.

Er, no...not totally

CNG is less expensive than Propane as of April 2008

conversion cost is about the same.

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corporate packages that have ac=cess to 100,000+ newsgroups Coal companies want to fuel your car and lately, they're getting a lot of political support for the idea.

I've been pushing for that option for years. Gassification of coal is relatively cheap ($2.50/gal) and solves several issues.

First, we become independent of foreign oil. Second, we have the potential to run cleaner than our current processes allow. Third, we have a resource that will last many years, while we can press for other energies.

It makes sense.

The technique of using tar-sands and coal as well as natural gas has improved and may easily help in getting the dependence on gulf-oil under control. There is enough energy in such and other energyforms to last many generations. The current price of oil may have been neccessary as a wake-up call to start looking around. The price of oil will come down soon but that does not mean we should not start using other sources more seriously.

The John Rich coal company of Pottsville Pennsylvania is currently in the process of building an anthracite coal to diesel fuel plant in Gilberto in Schuylkill County. The state has pleige to buy all of it diesel fuel. There is enough clédar burning anthracite coal in Schuylkill, Carbon and Luzerne counties in Pennsylvania to last 100 years. Anthracite coal currently costs around half the price of fuel oil per 100,000 BTUs

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John Rich Jr., whose family has worked the anthracite coal semas of eastern Pennsylvania for a Century, plans to turn a $100 million Grant from the U.S. Department of Energy into the nations first commercial plant converti waste coal, or culm, into low-émissions diesel fuel.

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GILBERTON, Pa. - Trucks running on coal? It could happen in the United States someday.

John Rich Jr., whose family has worked the anthracite coal seams of eastern Pennsylvania for a century, plans to turn a $100 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy into the nation's first commercial plant converting waste coal, or culm, into low-emissions diesel fuel.

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That's good to hear.

I'd be happy to convert my Avalanche to a duramax if I could use home-grown diesel...