Natural gas better than hybrids?
Honda natural gas Civic next to PhillUSA Today is wondering why people don't care about natural gas vehicles. It's cheaper than gasoline. Natural gas vehicles are clean. Why so much attention on hybrid vehicles rather than natural gas?
"Gasoline-electric hybrids have received attention because they are touted by Japanese automaking giant Toyota. They are being introduced haltingly by other automakers because their high-tech battery packs and dual gas-electric power plants make them costlier and less profitable to produce."
The article then claims there is a 60 year supply of natural gas. Hmmm. You mean at current consumption levels, right? If America started guzzling natural gas the way we guzzle gasoline, those reserves would dry up quite quickly, right?
More important, why is America moving to imported liquid natural gas if domestic natural gas is so plentiful? Ultimately, if America significantly increases natural gas use, it will be imported natural gas - much of which comes from countries that also hate the U.S. Is that really a significant improvement?
Fuel diversity is a good idea and natural gas is worth exploring, but it does only offer limited help. More important, comparing fuels to fuel efficiency-increasing technology, such as hybrid cars, is a very poor comparison.
Labels: honda civic hybrid, Hybrid Vehicles, natural gas
posted by Dahcredyns at
8:41 AM
1 Comments:
Great points. But why not have hybrid fueled with natural gas? (storage space in the auto) Honda has a hybrid, Honda has natural gas, why not together?
Also, while natural gas does not solve our problems, it is an excellent option, available right now, already delivered to many homes, with next to zero emissions, that can buy us some time until other technologies are improved or invented.
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