Diesel-spewing big rigs go green
Carmel Church, Virginia (CNN) -- At the Flying J truck stop in rural Virginia, truck drivers can taste the coffee, smell the diesel and see the future. The future lies in a remote corner of the parking lot, where workers recently planted two rows of gleaming new fuel pumps. They are labeled LNG -- liquefied natural gas. Though little noticed by the four-wheel public, there is a revolution taking place in the world of long-haul 18-wheelers. Next year, truck manufacturers will begin churning out trucks with new 11. 9-liter engines fueled by LNG -- a fuel that is significantly cheaper than diesel, is abundant in the United States and Canada, and is, arguably, clean. But there's a problem. Currently, there are only about 30 open LNG fueling stations in the country -- many of them clustered in energy-conscious southern California.
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Fred Krupp
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| -0.198527 | "It's a mistake to rush headlong into this," said Fred Krupp, ... |
| 0 | "If we can get the leak rate at 1% or less, then it's an OK thing for the atmosphere to make the switch (from diesel)," he said. |
| 0.156836 | "Unless we take the necessary steps to measure and reduce the amount of methane escaping from the entire supply chain, natural gas engines could very well be worse for our climate than diesel," Krupp told ... |
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T. Boone Pickens
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| -0.0133586 | "I mean, you are talking about saving a dollar and a half, two dollars a gallon and that's unheard of," said Pickens, ... |
| 0 | "If I'm trucking against you and my fuel bill is $2 a gallon cheaper than yours, I can tell you, you've got a problem. I will take a lot of your business away from you," Pickens told ... |
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Bill Graves
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| 0.0637529 | "I would say that, hold your breath, because any time now, that won't be a problem," said Bill Graves, ... |
| 0.165774 | "I would say that, hold your breath, because any time now, that won't be a problem," said Bill Graves, head of the American Trucking Associations. "There's going to be a deployment of fueling stations all across the nation and it's going to make movement of freight by truck -- by natural gas powered truck -- a reality." |
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Tom Kiley
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| 0.195889 | "Virtually every trucking company that we've talked to has understood that the savings involved with natural gas vehicles will be significant over what their fuel costs will be with diesel," said Tom Kiley, ... |
| 0.123489 | "Virtually every trucking company that we've talked to has understood that the savings involved with natural gas vehicles will be significant over what their fuel costs will be with diesel," said Tom Kiley, an alternative fuel specialist for Freightliner Arizona. "The only hesitation that we see is what's the fueling infrastructure -- Where can I get my fuel?" |
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Organization: LNG
Overall Sentiment: 0.167158
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FieldTerminology: natural gas
Overall Sentiment: 0.0735692
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FieldTerminology: liquefied natural gas
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