HARTFORD, Conn. — a new type of gas station opening in Connecticut, sells LNG to trucks to reduce polluting diesel smoke while potentially saving money.
Bill Malone, owner and operator of Enviro Express Inc., transporting waste and landfill and transfer stations open LNG station Friday at his company in Bridgeport near busy Interstate 95, a major East Coast Highway stretching from Maine to Florida.
Bridgeport station will also sell CNG as a fuel cars. Malone and other promoters of LNG for vehicles say fuel stations, established years ago in the Western world, is only now beginning to move to the East, begins with the Connecticut.
the 53-year-old Malone, who said that he has been in business with trucking because he was 18, looking to reduce pollution from its fleet of diesel fuel trucks. He heard of Clean Energy Fuels Corp., which designs, builds and manages natural gas fueling stations. Malone said 2008, he met with t. Boone Pickens, a co-founder of man oil Seal Beach, California, and Texas, now a booster of alternative fuels.
"He convinced me to be profitable as a trucking company, I need go LNG," Malone said.
Liquefied and compressed gas used initially for corporate and Government fleets. Malone is planning to begin converting 18 in their own trucks to LNG, and said he has won a commitment from AT&T Inc. to buy fuel for 48 trucks.
The station will be open for trucks and cars which can fill with a credit card linked to their fleet of company accounts.
Promoter of natural gas is, LNG and CNG is cleaner than gasoline and reduce U.S. dependence on imported oil as the most natural gas is from North America.
Cost savings will grow as oil prices continue to climb, with a distinction between 50 cents and $ 1 per gallon, "said Bruce Russell, spokesman for the Clean Energy Fuels Corp. large trucks can consume up to 20,000 gallons a year or more," he says.
Patrick Davis, vehicle technology program manager at the u.s. Department of energy, said the Bridgeport station is among the many projects that may total 300 million dollars in federal stimulus funding. Representing approximately one third of the total investment in these projects, which includes money committed by companies such as Enviro Express.
6.2 million dollars the cost of the Bridgeport station divided between Enviro Express and federal stimulus money.
"I would buy new trucks anyway. I couldn't have planned better, "said Malone.
Bridgeport station, Davis said is only open to the East of the Mississippi River, and other LNG and CNG stations are intended primarily to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil and fuel that does not pollute.
Liquefied natural gas is liquefied after being taken for temperatures as low as minus 200 degrees, "says Bruce Wilding, researcher at the Idaho National Laboratory. Compressed natural gas can be used for cars, which he said is more common in the West than the East Coast.
Russell said LNG "will" as an alternative fuel for transport, trucking.
Clean energy has reached an agreement to install LNG stations at truck stops nationwide and is building three stations, one in Texas and two in Southern California.
LNG vehicle has plied the motorways in California before moving to other States because of the demands for cleaner air, said Russell.
Malone said in the meantime, he will keep his diesel trucks as backups for LNG station has technical problems.
"If we have a problem with the fueling station, I can't run the road to another fueling station," he says.
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