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CNG Cars
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As many of you know I bought a Prius back in February. I have enjoyed the car as well as watching gas prices go up. When I bought the Prius I was able to negotiate a discount and pick it up that day. Now a Prius has a multiple month waiting list and sells over sticker.
Now I am looking to get an alternative fuel car, specifically CNG. When I used to spend time over in Eastern Europe many of the cars had been converted to LP, which is similar to CNG. Over there the conversions only cost a few hundred dollars. There are a few CNG cars that you can buy from the manufacturer, one of them is the Honda Civic CNG. The benefits of CNG are the cost of operation, called GGE (Gasoline Gallon Equivalent) you about half price right now per GGE of Natural Gas for the car. Also the best part is that you can buy and install a home filling station and actually fill the car up in your garage at home.
However I really do not want a Civic, I want to convert a Range Rover to CNG. There does not seem to be any legal ways (I have found some grey market conversions) to do this but I am going to keep looking. If I could pull this off then I could drive a zero carbon impact Range Rover at Prius dollars per gallon.
