Audi's new diesel

I notice we have buses here that run on NG.

It is possble to convert a diesel engine to run on NG?

I think a diesel powered Audi won the LeMans 24 hour race last year

Dave,
Storage of the gas is an issue, for 1000 k range you would need a trailer.

Cheers

Guys ya don't need to run on CNG.
Australia should be producing it son diesel and exporting it! How you ask? Well...Australia has huge reserves of gas and the is a process called Gas to Liquid conversion which make sexcellent diesel...it fact it is a better quality diesel than we put in our vehicles now.
See here:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7815172/

http://www.csiro.au/science/ps115.html

Its all good. Australia! GET OFF YOUR FRECKLE AND DO IT!


Ahhh that feels beter.

Hi Silverback

I think those GNC buses are still tooling around...in Adelaide anyway. I've no issue with that, in fact I think its good. It's just the thing about diesel prices gets up my nose a bit.

Oh...and about the political thingy here something I prepared earlier on another forum...

"However, there is another issue which I believe is a scam by oil companies into frightening the government into allowing them to maintain high prices...OIL PRICE PARITY.

This effectively means that the oil companies can charge what ever the Singapore price for oil is regardless of the cost of obtain Australian oil. One of the rationale is that if the companies can not do this they would not bother to do any exploration...yeah right...they are currently doing jack all exploration anyway...comparative to the rest of the world. Hasn't stopped the Arabs having cheap domestic oil has it?

Another fearful furphy is that they might sell it all overseas...go for it I say, at least it would bring some money into the country rather than out as oil company profits.

I actually don't object to the excise duties & tax we pay for oil...we should get it back in roads, services and infrastructure.

I also have an idea that I'd rather pay and extra 10cents a litre for registration and third party insurance than the yearly slug. This way the highest risk and cost is covered by the highest users.

I'll stand back from the fire now"

Cheers

Brad