The government used to make car makers dedicate a certain percentage of their fleet to alternative fuel vehicles.  that is why you will be able to find many CNG vehicles that go up to a 2004 year model.  Why are there no cng cars made by huge car makers after 2004? (excluding Honda)  The reason is because flex fuel was invented which is a mixture of ethanol with regular petrol.  This alternative fuel still relies heavily on the oil industry as opposed to CNG which does not.  This once again begs the question why the government continues to force us to use oil?  I’m not a government conspiracy theorist, but its an undeniable fact that the U.S. government is addicted to oil.

(Korean Federation for Environmental Movement via Associated Press)

Did you know that the U.S. has enough natural gas to allow us to completely cut off our foreign supply of oil?  Did you know that unlike oil, natural gas is a renewable resource?  That’s right, natural gas wells, once depleted, can refill within 5-10 years!  In fact natural gas is just seeping out of the ground and we aren’t doing anything about it.  Corporate greed and large corporations have recently just shown us how much they care about the environment and  people’s way of life, which is not at all.  It’s time for us at U.S. citizens to step up and commission our legislators to push to make CNG conversions easier to obtain and to make them easier to legalize in all 50 states.

There is no disputing that CNG is better for the environment, runs cleaner, and helps engines double and even triple their normal life cycles.  To help stop the brutal killing of life and ways of life that oil continues to carry out, we need to stand up and start using the resources here in our own country that is just seeping out of the ground anyway.

If you are thinking of purchasing or converting a car to CNG, you have probably been wondering what the pros and cons are.  Well we have put together a list of pros and cons so that you can get a better idea of what really comes with owning a CNG vehicle.

Pros:

• If you convert a regular car to a CNG vehicle, you have essentially created a dual fuel car.  This means that the car can run on either CNG or regular gas.  This gives you a lot of flexibility and can greatly increase the amount of miles you can go in your car using both the CNG and gasoline tank.
• Natural gas burns much cleaner that regular gas and in so doing will help your engine to last much longer.  It is quite common for a CNG car to go way over the 500 thousand mile mark.
• Natural gas is much cheaper than gasoline.  The national average is $.79 cents per gallon for CNG as opposed to high gas prices well above the $2.75  per gallon range.
• All of the Natural Gas in the USA is from the good old USA.  This means there is no foreign dependence for CNG which gives the nation a much greater stability when it comes to prices
• Natural Gas is a renewable resource whereas oil is not.  Natural gas wells, once depleted, will refill within about 5 to 10 years and the USA is overly abundant in the supply of natural gas.

Cons:

• CNG conversion kits can cost between $2,500 to $5,000 dollars to buy and install
• Natural gas stations are not available everywhere throughout the USA.  You will need to check your local area and see if there are stations available before going gung ho to add a CNG kit to your car.
• If you buy a CNG dedicated car, like a Honda CIVIC NGV, you can only run the car on natural gas.  To run your car on both gasoline or Natural Gas, you must install a CNG conversion kit to a gasoline car.

In conclusion, there are pros and cons, but if  you live in an area with CNG stations, the pros far outweigh the cons.  With your car lasting much longer, and the money you save from low CNG gas prices, the kit will easily pay for itself within the first 5 years.  CNG is the wave of the future, and people and government need to push harder to make this the new transportation staple.

Many people have heard of CNG cars, mainly because of the Honda Civic NGV, but what exactly is a natural gas conversion kit?  Natural gas conversion for cars has existed for several years and is nothing new.  Basically, natural gas conversion for cars uses aluminum composite tanks and a CNG kit to inject Natural gas into the engine block while shutting off the passage of gasoline.  The switching between gasoline and natural gas usually is initiated by the driver pushing a button or flipping a switch.

The amazing thing about adding a natural gas conversion kit to your car is that they are perfectly safe and help your car to last much longer.  Natural gas burns much cleaner than oil, and because such, it is very common to see CNG cars with conversion kits go pass the 500K mile mark with ease.  In order to install a CNG kit you will need to make sure that you have enough room in your car to install a CNG tank while having enough room to carry passengers and cargo.  SUV’s and trucks are some of the best vehicles to install a CNG kit on as they have lots of room.

Many people wonder if you get better mileage on CNG or if it’s about the same.  The answer is you get a little bit better mileage running the car on CNG, however, the CNG tanks cannot hold near what a gasoline tank can.  Because of this it is great to have the option to switch to gas when your CNG tanks are running low.

Natural gas conversion for cars is very common and completely doable.  The best thing to do is to find a certified CNG installer so that you can make sure the job is done right as they have to configure your car’s computer to work with Natural Gas intake.  If you want to save the environment and save money, natural gas conversion kits are a great solutions.

With the huge BP oil spill that is killing marine life and ruining the ocean, many American’s and the world are thinking of how to take back our precious earth.  One of the ways we can do this is by using fuels that do not harm the environment and that are renewable.  The BP oil spill is helping the world to see how bad our reliability is on oil.  The reality is setting in that we are fine as a people to kill the environment if it means we can fill up our car.  Well if you are like me, i do not think this way and sadly to say, there are plenty of renewable resources right here in our own country that we arent even using.  One such resource is natural gas.

Did you know that Natural Gas wells replenish themselves within a matter of years?  Thats right!  There is natural gas just seeping out of the ground and we are not even harnessing it.  Natural Gas cars, or CNG cars as they are commonly called, use this renewable resource in place of gasoline.  The best part about a CNG car with a CNG kit that has been retrofitted into the engine is that with the flip of a switch, you can choose to run on oil or CNG while in the midst of driving without skipping a beat.  CNG kits costs around 2 thousand dollars, but did you know that a natural gas car can run much longer than a car that runs on gasoline?  Most CNG cars average about 500-700 thousand miles before the engine gives way.  This is a significantly longer lasting time than most cars could even dream of. 

Now is the time to stand up and let our legislation know that the T. Boone Pickins dream of having natural gas stations in every state must become a reality if we are to keep our environment in tact.  CNG cars are the replacement of oil as we know it, we just need to push as a society and culture to make this happen!

Are CNG Kits safe?  Many people wonder this as they consider converting their gas car into a bifuel CNG car that can run on either fuel.  CNG kits are very popular these days with the rising price of gasoline, but are they safe?  The answer is YES they are and in fact, a CNG tank is much safer than a regular conventional gasoline tank.

Why are they safer?  A CNG tank is made of aluminum composite and is extremely strong.  If you don’t believe us check out our safety page and watch the video as they explode Dynamite on a CNG tank and it does nothing.  The tanks are super strong and can hold high pressures very safely.  On top of that, the tanks have emergency release mechanisms to release gas when the integrity of the tank has been compromised.  While the tanks and CNG kits are very safe, the only thing that could make them not safe is installation.

In Utah, a man installed a CNG kit himself.  He forgot to vent out the release valve outside the car.  One night when he was filling up, the mechanism on the tank was open and released the gas.  The gas went into the cab of the car and replaced all the oxygen and almost suffocated his children that were in the back seat.  Do yourself a favor, and unless you are a mechanic, don’t install this yourself.  have it done by the professionals.  What most people don’t understand is that you have to hook up a device to your car’s computer to optimize the CNG input and intake to optimize your engine performance.  Most people don’t have a clue how to do this and don’t even possess the tools necessary to talk to their car’s computer.  Just hire a professional to ensure safatey, and optimized performance when buying a CNG kit.

It’s that time of year again when the gas prices start hiking very quickly.  Gas is already well above $3 dollars a gallon and will probably be very similar to the summer of 2008 when gas was well above $4 dollars a gallon.  With Obama touting that green jobs will eventually hit America, there are things we can do as Americans right now.  One of these things is getting a CNG conversion kits for cars put on our cars.  The national average price of natural gas is sitting around $.70 cents per gallon.  I know it sounds insane, but its true!  If gas really does get up there this summer, you will be able to easily pay for a CNG kit just from the savings you gain from not using gasoline this up coming summer.

Many people wonder where they can get a CNG kit and how hard they are to install.  Let me just first of all say that if you are a mechanic and love working on cars, this will not be a problem at all for you.  If you don’t know anything about cars, PLEASE pay someone to do this.  If you don’t install this correctly, can permanently damage your car and that’s a lot of wasted money out the window if that happens.  CNG conversion kits start at about $2,500 dollars.  You can usually pay someone for the kit and the install for about $3,500-$5,000 dollars.  I know this sounds like a lot but you need to consider these facts:

• CNG cars last much longer.  It is very common for engines on CNG cars to go well over 500,000 miles because of how much cleaner the engine runs
• Natural Gas is so CHEAP!!!  You can even get a pump that goes into your garage so you can fill your car up from home and never have to go to a gas station again.
• With the kit install, your car is now a dual fuel vehicle.  That means with the flip of a switch you can have the car run off of natural gas or regular gas at your discretion.
• You are making the nation less dependent on foreign oil and putting a demand on natural gas.
• CNG cars are much safer than gasoline engines and is safer in a car crash.

As you can see, the benefits are very high, and the years worth of savings from not using gasoline will easily pay for the conversion kit as well as the price of your car.  If you have thought about  a CNG conversion kit, now is a great time to put one in!

Most of us are still recovering from the high gas prices that plagued the nation back in 2008.  Since that time, oil companies have continued to gain strength and paying over $2.60 for a gallon of gas is normal.  The sad thing is that oil companies have made record profits within the last 2 years, and high gas prices are not helping a nation dwindling in optimism and desperate for jobs.  What can be done about this?

The main problem is our dependency on foreign oil.  Did you know that America has enough resources right here at home to be completely self sufficient without the aid of any foreign country?  Natural gas is seeping out of the ground naturally, and we arent even capturing it!  One of the neatest things about natural gas wells is that once they are depleted, given enough time, they will refill.  This is a renewable resource!  Oil is not.  So what can people like you and me do to help get the everyone else on the band wagon?  There have been some positive signs for alternative energy with windmills and solar panel farms being built around the nation.  T. Boone Pickins shows commercials all the time about switching our large semi fleets to natural gas resources.  Companies like Honda are definitely going the right route as they build CNG civic’s and are also working on newer vehicles that will run on natural gas. 

Chevy, Ford, and Chrysler used to make CNG cars, but do not anymore and have not since 2004.  The biggest problem people run into when looking for a CNG car is that there usually is not a commercial CNG station near their home for them to fill up.  Companies have solved this issue by creating pumps that can fit in your garage to use the natural gas of your home.  Can you imagine never having to go to a gas station again?  This dream i a reality, its just that not enough people have jumped on the wagon so to speak.  The main way that CNG cars will become main stream is if we get more cng stations built around the nation.  Once these stations are mainstream, CNG cars will follow.

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Cng, Lpg, Bi Fuel and Hybrid Cars are the wave of the future.   Stop being a slave to foreign oil and tap into the renewable resource of natural gas.   Did you know that once a natural gas reserve is depleted that it will refill within ten years?  Did you know that natural gas is coming out of of the ground all around the nation and is not being harnessed?  Natural gas really is the answer to stopping the enslavement of our country to foreign oil.  In our site you will learn a comparison to cars that are dual or bi-fuel and gasoline, these figures will help you understand the benifits of these vehicles from Austrailia to the USA

CNG cars have been in use for the last 20 years by the government and other agencies.  Until recently the technology has not been common public knowledge, but with rising gasoline prices more people are starting to take advantage of this technology.  CNG is one resource that is an alternative fuel but there are others.  LPG is another resource that we use every day.  We use propane in our outdoor grills and forklifts etc.  These technologies are quite simple to understand, they replace regular gasoline.

Many people think that by owning a cng car or an lpg car that the engine parts are totally different and that they are very difficult to repair and maintain.  This is not true. The components of the car stay exactly the same and if fact a cng conversion kit can be installed on brand new cars to make it compatible with cng or lpg.  There is hardware added that makes your engine work with these types of fuels so everything else in the engine stays the same.  A CNG conversion kit is considered an aftermarket product.  The reason is that its just like putting new rims on a vehicle.  It deosn’t change the workings of the vehicle, it just adds something to it.  The same analogy works for cng conversion kits.

Did you know that cng cars run 90% cleaner than normal vehicles that run on regular gasoline?  CNG cars on average at least double the normal engine life of a regular car because of how clean natural gas burns.  If you owned a dedicated cng car you would only have to change your oil once a year because of the cleanliness of cng.  There have been many documented accounts of cng vehicles going over 1 million miles before they bite the dust!

Alot of people also wonder about where they can fill up a CNG car.  Many states have fill stations and many more are building them.  There are kits available that allow you to fill up your CNG car with the natural gas in your home.  The nice thing about CNG cars is that many of them are bi fuel cars.  Bi fuel simply means that they can run on two different types of fuel.  This is very convenient because if there is not a CNG fill station near all you have to do is fill up your bi fuel car at a regular gas station which allows you to still be able to drive your vehicle.  Most bi fuel vehicles allow you to switch the fuel by the flip of the switch and it switches the gasoline  so efficiently that you can even be driving when you do this and you won’t even feel it switch over.

As you can see the world of CNG, LPG, Bi fuel and hybrid cars is the wave of the future.  Please take a look at the other pages on our website to educate yourself on the savings, safety, and the pride that can be achieved by owning a CNG car or adding on a CNG conversion kit.

Many people are interested in the way CNG cars work and how good they are for the environment. The biggest worry on people’s mind seems to be the safety aspects of a CNG car. We wanted to dispel all the myths and set the record straight.

CNG tanks are primarily made of an aluminum composite material which is extremely durable and much stronger than the metal used in today’s regular gas tanks. These Aluminum composite tanks can withstand dynamite, gun fire, and 70 mph collisions.

Another safety feature of CNG cars is that if the integrity of the CNG tank is compromised at all there is a safety release valve which safely expends the natural gas within the tank.

Natural gas requires a lot more heat to be ignited unlike regular gas. Even if the car is on fire and the safety valve is releasing gas, it will not ignite unless the heat is above 1100 Degrees.

Filling a natural gas tank is not scary and is extremely safe. Compression is around 4000 lbs per square inch when filling, but the tanks are rated to hold much more than that, so the worry of explosion is absurd. If a small spark happened or a cigarette was lighted it would not compromise the ignition of natural gas as alot more heat is required to light natural gas.

As you can see, CNG cars are very safe and reliable. Don’t let safety be a concern if you are considering buying one of these types of vehicles.

CNG cars saves you money by:

Saving you $2.84 a gallon on fuel by paying only $.85 cents a gallon instead of $3.69 a gallon.

Saving you $3,000 to $5,000 a year in fuel costs.

Saving you $25,000 to $50,000 in fuel costs over the life of you car.

Saving you hundreds of dollars in oil changes.

Giving your engine twice the life.

Giving you the equivalent to 120 mpg.

CNG cars saves you time by:

Allowing you to drive alone in the carpool lane which will save you several hours of commute time.

Allowing you to park for free in public parking areas

Allowing you to fill up your car at home eliminating gas stations all together.

CNG cars help to save the environment by:

Omitting 90% less carbon monoxide

Omitting 60% less nitrous oxide

Omitting 40% less carbon dioxide

Producing only 5% of the emissions allowable by today’s standards

Being the most environment friendly car on the market

Every year you will save thousands of dollars with your CNG car. In your first year, if you drive a car that gets 14 mpg on average and you drive 20,000 miles per year, you will save $4,000. Because owning a CNG car will contribute to a cleaner environment it may be possible for you to receive a $2,500 tax credit from the state of Utah.

There are many different factors that must be evaluated to buy a car.  Yes a CNG car may be more money initially however in the long term they are considered cheap cars to own.  Vehicles that operate on CNG are considered cheap cars because the engines have been shown to operate for over 1,000,000 miles.