Moreover, the price advantage of natural gas over gasoline shrinks as cars become more fuel-efficient.
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Fuel costs are at least 15% less using natural gas rather than gasoline or diesel.
This is because of a relatively small contribution of natural gas to ConocoPhillips? stock value compared to other petroleum products produced by ConocoPhillips such as crude oil, natural gas liquids, gasoline, distillates, fuel oil, and a variety of others.
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Natural gas burns cleaner than gasoline or diesel, with 20 to 27 percent fewer greenhouse gas emissions.
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With at least a one hundred year reserve of domestic shale gas in America, a huge price difference between natural gas and diesel or gasoline, and the opportunity for significant energy security benefits offered by a domestic resource, businesses, consumers and governments have realized the need to incorporate natural gas into the national transportation mix.
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Downstream activities generally refer to the refining of crude oil and distributing its by-products including gasoline, natural gas, LPG and diesel.
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Recognizing that it is flush in natural gas, and understanding that gasoline sanctions are imminent, the Iranian government has sought in recent years to shield its underbelly.
Gasification of coal offers the potential to turn dirty burning hydrocarbons into cleaner burning liquid fuels, such as synthetic natural gas, jet fuel and gasoline, as well as hydrogen for fuel cell use, a developing field.
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Over the past few weeks auto writer Matthew de Paula and I have hosted an online conversation debating the practicality, performance and appeal of cars that run on diesel, electricity, natural gas and other non-gasoline fuels.
Auto writer Matthew de Paula and I are debating the practicality, performance and appeal of cars that run on diesel, electricity, natural gas and other non-gasoline fuels (entries include a Volt, Nissan Leaf, Honda Civic GX and Volkswagen Jetta TDI, among others).
Auto writer Matthew de Paula and I will be debating the practicality, performance and appeal of cars that run on diesel, electricity, natural gas and other non-gasoline fuels (entries include a Chevrolet Volt, Nissan LEAF, Honda Civic GX and Volkswagen Jetta TDI, among others).
Auto writer Matthew de Paula and I are debating the practicality, performance and appeal of cars that run on diesel, electricity, natural gas and other non-gasoline fuels. (Entries include a Chevrolet Volt, Nissan Leaf, Honda CR-Z and Volkswagen Jetta TDI, among others.) An edited version will appear in a future issue of Forbes magazine.
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Auto writer Matthew de Paula and I are debating the practicality, performance and appeal of cars that run on diesel, electricity, natural gas and other non-gasoline fuels. (Entries include a Chevrolet Volt, Nissan Leaf, Honda CR-Z and Honda Civic GX, among others.) An edited version will appear in a future issue of Forbes magazine.
This is part of a Forbes online conversation to debate the practicality, performance and appeal of cars that run on diesel, electricity, natural gas and other non-gasoline fuels. (Entries include a Chevrolet Volt, Nissan Leaf, Honda Civic GX and Volkswagen Golf TDI that runs on French Fry oil.) An edited version will appear in Forbes magazine.
Tailpipe emissions also would drop, since natural gas burns cleaner than diesel or gasoline.
Flexon also thinks there could be a future in building plants that turn natural gas or coal into diesel or gasoline.
For example, the BBC reported in 2007 that all cars manufactured in Iran were mandated to have dual-fuel capacity to run on either gasoline or compressed natural gas (CNG).
It seems kind of crazy, because natural gas is about half the price of gasoline (on a per gallon basis) right now.
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Latvia has no nuclear plants and imports 100 percent of its gasoline, diesel, natural gas, coal, and other liquid fuel sources for its population of 2.7 million.
One frequent question deals with Compressed Natural Gas or Liquified Natural Gas vehicles (Natural Gas Vehicles or NGV) in comparison with tri-Flex Fuel vehicles ( Gasoline, Ethanol, Methanol) vehicles.
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On another energy-security front, Woolsey called on automakers to produce fuel-flex cars and for gas stations to offer motorists the choice of gasoline or methanol a liquid fuel made from natural gas to free American transportation from dependence on OPEC.
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And you can bet the farm that if natural gas were to go to that price, gasoline would be a lot higher, too.
Crude oil accounts for a hefty 23% weighting, and along with gasoline, heating oil and natural gas, the energy complex totals nearly 40% of the entire index.
If Americans were offered clean energy options that were affordable and better than gasoline, coal, and natural gas, much of the derision towards clean energy would go away.
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Iran shut down its electricity grid several times last winter to conserve gas, says former energy official Fesharaki, and it plans to build at least 600 compressed natural gas stations this year to reduce demand for gasoline.
The company is focusing on increasing oil and natural gas production significantly by 2015 and also spent huge sums of money to lift natural-gas accessibility in comparison with diesel and gasoline in the U.S. transportation sector.
But by the 1950s, gasoline was cheap and abundant and natural gas fell out of favor.
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Your car can now run on either gasoline, or CNG(compressed natural gas, methane) at the flip of a switch.
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So, since most of our petroleum imports go for gasoline and diesel, conversion to natural gas would mean that imports could go to zero.
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