"Volvo Trucks and Shell have agreed to cooperate globally on the introduction of Liquefied Natural Gas as a fuel for commercial heavy duty trucks. Based on Volvo’s new MethaneDiesel concept whereby LNG can be used in diesel engines, and Shell’s LNG expertise and infrastructure investments, the two companies will coordinate their activities and actively support the wider use of LNG in the transport sector according to a statement released today by Volvo.
"Shell is a key player in this market and we are one of the leading truck manufacturers, with an energy-efficient gas truck already available on the market. Together we believe that we can enhance and speed up the introduction of LNG to the transport business, both through own activities and by inspiring others", says Lennart Pilskog, Director of Public Affairs at Volvo Trucks."........................
FredHayek wrote: Thanks for posting. With the bad name diesel has with the enviros, you have to think fleets of LNG trucks would be welcomed.
Plus it seems like diesel is pricing itself out of the market, at least in Colorado.
Feds are the ones who are doing all they can to price diesel out of the market.
Diesel fuel was required to have 15 ppm or less of sulfur. Did you know that gasoline is allowed to have up to double this amount on average and over 5x this amount on a per gallon test? Feds also tax diesel more per gallon than they do gasoline, over 30% more per gallon as a matter of fact. It's the federal way to "reduce the deficit", by charging more tax on something that the average person never buys for themselves but that they end up paying anyways because everything they consume incorporates the higher tax rate into the cost of their goods and services.
Think about this for a minute. If an automobile averages 30 mpg, the person is charged $0.184 per 30 miles in tax. The vehicles which use diesel to move goods to your store are averaging around 6 mpg and are taxed at $0.244 per gallon of fuel, which means that the trucks that bring your food, your clothing, your electronics and every thing else you purchase are taxed $1.22 per 30 miles.
The reason diesel is more expensive than gasoline? Thank the federal government. If they taxed it identically to gasoline, and allowed the sulfur content to be the same as it is for gasoline, the cost of diesel fuel would drop by roughly $0.30 per gallon. No joke.
And in Europe, they tax gasoline like crazy because it is thought passenger cars are a luxury and diesel is needed to move freight. So consumers there adapted and buy diesel autos.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
