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The Market Potential of CNG as a Transportation Fuel

The Market Potential of CNG as a Transportation Fuel

By Steven R. Kopits • on February 8, 2010

In the search for alternative fuels and technologies to oil-based engines, basic cost-benefit analysis is often over-looked, and yet the dissemination of a new technology works is most successful when the market actually wants it. In making an initial assessment of the potential of a new technology, venture capitalists often apply a set of relatively simple tests to determine whether the business potential is there at all. Read More

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The Market Potential of CNG as a Transportation Fuel

By Steven R. Kopits • on February 8, 2010

In the search for alternative fuels and technologies to oil-based engines, basic cost-benefit analysis is often over-looked, and yet the dissemination Read More

Natural Gas - Bridge to sustainability by Tom Hewett

By admin • on February 1, 2010

Steve Andrews says it’d be nice to have more viewpoints from ‘inside the industry,’ so who am I too let the big guy down! I’m a petroleum Read More

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Rex Tillerson, CEO of ExxonMobil

By admin • on February 8, 2010

“Motor vehicle gasoline demand is down, is headed down and is going to continue to head down.”  Read More

Thierry Desmarest, chairman of French giant Total

By admin • on February 1, 2010

“The problem of peak oil remains. In our opinion, it will be very difficult to raise oil production worldwide above 95 million barrels a day, which Read More

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Chris Jarvis, president Caprock Risk Management; Hampton Falls, New Hampshire

“We’ve gone from record [natural gas] storage to under the five-year average in two months, which is really astonishing. Before this winter season started, most traders thought it to be incomprehensible  Read More

Review January 25, 2010

Download Full PDF 1. Prices and Production Oil prices have now fallen by $10 a barrel from a recent high above  Read More

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