I think Natural Gas, or Gas in general (is propane a type of natural gas???)
is going to be the replacement for gasoline and not electric nor hydrogen...
thats what I think I read in some book about long term S curves (I'll have
to look at it again if I can find it...)

>
>Some list member in the UK asked about LPG conversion for the vanagon
>recently.
>I finally got around to installing a propane fuel system on my 1987 syncro
>westy.  Its a duel fuel system so the original digifant is still in place
>and functional.  You just flip an electrical switch on the dash to change
>over, even while driving.
>Propane in Canada is a lot cheaper than gas or diesel, less tax.  In
>Alberta
>its almost half the price of gas.
>Range has almost doubled also.  To bad I don't have 11:1 CR to take
>advantage of the 115 octane though.
>Overall cost per mile is same or a little less than the 1.6 TD westy I had,
>but there is a LOT more power.
>Around here it seems there are more places to buy propane than diesel, so
>it
>is a practical motor fuel (where I live that is). My propane/gas Jetta has
>10,000 km since I converted it to propane, I've only driven less than 50 km
>of that on gasoline.
>
>Gary Lee
>Calgary, Canada

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