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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Sales of natural gas vehicles evaporate

Last summer, with gasoline prices in the ionosphere, interest in cars that ran on compressed natural gas (instead of the liquid stuff) surged. When oil prices collapsed ... not so much. Honda Civic GX Among the victims of the short-lived natural gas hype are car sales professionals like Alex Tissot, who, as general manager of Colonial Honda in Glendale, ordered up a mess of natural gas-powered Honda Civic GX sedans last summer, only to find them impossible to sell as the price of fuel dropped below the $2.50 mark. He and others are victims of a sales problem described in today's paper: Crashing demand for alternative powertrain vehicles as gas prices decline...LA Times

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: One of the problems with the compressed natural gas vehicle is that there are limited refueling stations. Back in the 70's there were an abundance of pickups running on propane. When gas became plentiful, following the defeat of the peanut farmer, propane was forgotten. It really is a good fuel, my tractor runs on it. But don't plan on filling up your car just anywhere.; 9:19 PM