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Six Companies Poised to Gain from a Natural Gas Auto Mandate

You all may have missed the news back in November that the Pickens Plan is no longer focused on CNG passenger vehicles, but supports CNG for heavy trucks (see seekingalpha.com/artic... Reason being that CNG has about 1/4 the energy per gallon of gasoline, so to get equivalent range you need 4x as much tank volume as a gasoline-powered vehicle. This is less of a problem for trucks, and you may have seen transit busses with CNG tanks strapped to their roofs.

I for one would not want to sacrifice range, or trunk space, or a rear seat, or accept the risks of CNG in a collision let alone leakage in my garage.