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NEW YORK (Reuters) - American automobiles have a limited diet, but gasoline's monopoly at the pump may be ending. The giant of U.S. automakers is turning to something cheaper and cleaner: natural gas. General Motors Corp. announced plans this week to develop its first natural gas-powered engine, overcoming its long aversion to alternative fuels and joining a host of smaller players working to put natural gas in car engines.
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. - The governors of Colorado, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Wyoming are teaming up to encourage U.S. automakers to develop affordable vehicles that run on natural gas, a valuable resource in each of their states. Their plan is to start replacing thousands of vehicles in their state fleets with ones that run on natural gas, in turn driving demand for more filling stations and cars that run on alternative fuel, according to a memorandum of understanding the governors signed Wednesday.
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EAST LIBERTY, Ohio -- Selling cars powered by natural gas to American drivers is no small challenge for Honda Motor Co. Natural- gas stations are few and far between, and until recently the vehicles were nearly as expensive to fuel up as their gasoline- powered counterparts. Now gasoline prices are up about 60 cents a gallon from a year ago, and motorists can buy a device that allows them to get natural gas fill-ups at home. Honda plans to expand sales of the natural gas Civic GX next year to major cities around the country.
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Natural gas cars: to buy or not to buy? ZOOM ZOOM: Honda Motor Co. hopes that high gasoline prices coupled with the ability to refuel at home will spur sales of its natural gas cars. The automaker plans to go nationwide with sales next year.
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Billionaire tycoon T. Boone Pickens Jr. recently has stepped up efforts to press for Congress to pass a sweeping natural gas subsidy package known as the NAT GAS Act of 2011. The Pickens-backed proposal would enact a host of goodies for the industry: subsidies totaling $11,500 per car; $64,000 for commercial natural gas trucks, depending on their size; and up to $100,000 for retailers to install natural gas infrastructure at filling stations. By Mr. Pickens' own estimate, the cost to taxpayers to put 140,000 commercial natural gas trucks and the necessary fueling stations into operation would be $5 billion over five years. However, add in the cost of the passenger-vehicle subsidy at an assumed sales rate of 1 million natural gas cars and 100,000 small natural gas trucks each year, and t...
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An Oregon company wants to build a compressed natural gas station at the Port of Vancouver. It would be the first such fueling station in Southwest Washington, according to federal records. If there was someone in the transportation business who wanted to use compressed natural gas, we could deliver it to them, said Peter Hackett, vice president of business development for Vista Natural Gas, the company proposing the station. The compressed natural gas could fuel cars, buses, trucks and light trucks.
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There's never a line when Scott Mills gases up his car. But there is nowhere to buy coffee or potato chips, either. When you drive a car powered by natural gas, it's all about such trade-offs.
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Pennsylvania car dealer John Jakobsen watched a Ford Crown Victoria go unsold at the auction for several weeks in a row before curiosity got the best of him. The bifuel car could run on gasoline or natural gas. He guessed there were no bidders because natural gas costs more on the East Coast than gasoline, so the bifuel setup just meant more hardware under the hood to take care of. But Jakobsen smelled a bargain and, with a really low bid, found himself with a bifuel car on his lot.
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A $10 fill-up at a compressed natural gas station buys about 145 miles on the road in one of Jim Nardulli and Donna Shields' Chevy Cavaliers. The Cheswick couple bought both of their 2004 model "bi" cars on eBay about a year ago. When the six-gallon natural gas tanks run out, the cars burn regular gasoline.
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WHEN PEOPLE around the nation think of Norfolk, they generally think of the military, largely because of the huge defense industry that is based here, highlighted by Norfolk Naval Station, the U.S. Fleet Forces Command, the NATO Allied Command Transformation and the United States Joint Forces Command. But Norfolk is also the commercial and cultural center of Hampton Roads . Because of its location on the Chesapeake Bay, it is a major trade artery for the import and export of goods from across the United States.
