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Originally Posted by Fish On
Time to offer another fuel alternative. When gas prices skyrocketed in the early 70's the country switched tr uck ing to diesel in about 5 or 6 years. This same process is occurring again now with natural gas (compressed and LNG). You will see nat gas marine engines in the not too near distant future.
Westport Innovations is the global leader in this technology. Regardless of which OEM LNG nat gas engine you buy it will have Westport technology likely through at least 2018 (massive patent protfolio).
WPRT closed today at $46.90/share.
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I would love to see a move to nat gas for vehicles...the problem is it will take some infrastructural built out (convert gasoline stations to carry nat gas). This is just not happening to any great extent. If I was running this would be my major energy platform:
a) move to nat gas NOW for transportation
- immediate national work project built out infrastructure to support this (ie create millions of NEW jobs today!) No handouts, just solid jobs
b) invest heavily in energy R&D (all phases) and provide strong incentives for kids to study math, science and medicine, no incentive for anything else. (probably full tuition deduction with good grades)
c) incentives for auto companies to produce and sell nat gas vehicles.
d) incentives for consumers to trade in gasoline for nat gas vehicles
This will do 5 huge things for this country:
1) Buy us some time...probably at least 100-200 years to fully develop electric vehicles, battery, etc
2) get us off the foreign fuel sources
3) clean burning (somewhat greener)
4) create jobs
5) improve technology for long term
What I want to know how come we don't have anyone running who talks like this?