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114 comments on An immodest proposal about fuel efficiency
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Boof,
I would be surprised if a gas compressor costs 8K, would depend upon pressure required.Low range tanks could use lower pressure. A 2K cost for conversion would be a faster payback than the 10K extra for batteries in a hybrid. The real value would be if petrol imports are just not available. It doesn't seem to make sense to be importing petrol from Asia, and refrigerating, NG as LNG and exporting it back to Asia. Piping CSM from Narrabri or even QLD is always going to be cheaper. There would be lots of pressures not to tax NG because of the lower carbon content than petrol.
What you're saying is backed up by this website http://rosettamoon.copley.org.au/
which I only heard of this week. Scroll down to see the article on NG as fuel. There is also a map of the pipeline network.