Driving up sales
May 1, 2003 By LP Gas
In the heart of gritty, industrial Cleveland, parked on a pitted, gravel lot, some of the cleanest engines in the city are waiting to burn.
Read More Pay at the pump
May 1, 2003 By LP Gas
Imagine hordes of hurried motorists pulling into gas stations and filling their tanks with propane. Gas-and-go with the swipe of a money card. Think of all the clean-burning gallons that would be consumed should propane become commonplace as an American automobile fuel — to say nothing of the auxiliary LPG business that a public primed for propane would support.
Read More The Road to Cleaner Fuel
March 1, 2003 By LP Gas
Imminent EPA regulations and a competitive race toward the hot, new technologies that promise high growth markets are pressing propane industry efforts to solve complex fuel composition problems that have plagued the industry for decades.
Read More Pushing Propane’s Plusses
February 1, 2003 By LP Gas
Propane’s prominence as a motor vehicle fuel appears ready to shift into overdrive with construction of the nation’s first alternative fuels Regional Transportation Center in San Diego.
Read More What’s the game plan?
November 1, 2002 By LP Gas
If and when our country’s leaders ever manage to approve a new national energy policy, the propane industry stands to reap a healthy share of the billions of dollars in incentives proposed for alternative fuel use in the years ahead.
Read More Just a walk in the park
November 1, 2002 By LP Gas
Some people are attracted to the stunning beauty of deep blue lake waters tucked picturesquely beneath white-capped mountains. Others come to witness the graceful power of a waterfall, or the almost spiritual silence of a rustic landscape torn from an old Zane Gray novel.
Read More Back to school
September 1, 2002 By LP Gas
Just in time for the current back-to-school season, a $50 million program is getting under way in Texas to help school districts add new, clean fuel propane buses to their pupil transportation fleets. And that program is expected to be just the start of a major national effort to clean up school buses, spurred by new legislation and the Environmental Protection Agency’s concerns about clean air and children’s health.
Read More A Deere of a propane engine
July 1, 2002 By LP Gas
A lean-burning, 74-horsepower propane engine developed by engineers at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, demonstrates a low-emissions alternative to diesel power.
Read More Propane incentives aplenty in national energy policy
June 1, 2002 By LP Gas
Tax credits and grants to encourage propane use have cleared both houses of Congress. A conference committee is trying to resolve differences between the Energy Policy Act of 2002 the Senate passed recently and a different version the House passed last summer.
Read More Fork it over
May 1, 2002 By LP Gas
New federal regulations aimed at reducing air pollution are likely to have a significant impact on propane-fueled forklifts, including large reductions in per-unit fuel consumption.
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