Quote Originally Posted by sduyck_2000 View Post
I was informed that CASE-IH has A new tractor out uses natural gas instead of diesel.....I told the salesman to get me one of those as soon as i get a place to fill it.
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BAck in the late 1990's and early 2000's, we put a team of researchers together to talk to local industry about using natural gas vehicles. Several public transport bus companies, cab services, FEDEX and UPS all said that if we (meaning DOE) built the filling stations, they would buy the fleet cars to use. We tried to get the funding but couldn't obtain it. There are many companies that would use the infrastructure if it was available.

One of the last ill-considered snafu's I saw like a week before I retired was the natural gas station they built on our grounds. We were about to receive a fleet of several dozen, dual-carbed, duel fuel, natural gas vehicles (they always had gasoline backups) and we needed the filling stations to make them work. We had offices 60 miles apart and those were the cars that everyone was to use to travel in between and to Washington DC (it's like 4 hours away from us)...
The station that some non-engineer bought and installed could fill four cars in eight hours only with supervision.
Talk about the definition of FUBAR and SNAFU and cluster fuck. check all of those boxes.

I know what you mean about that tractor.