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Originally Posted by Tobra View Post
How about if you ran the generator part of it on propane instead of gasoline? Doesn't propane burn cleaner? There is lot of infrastructure for this in place, and we are sitting on a lot of it, relative to petroleum anyway.
Liquid natural gas and propane do not produce many of the same types of pollutants that gasoline does, but they still produce "greenhouse gasses" so using it instead will still cause our planet to burn up in a ball of flames any minute now.

It also costs a little more than gasoline, and it is less efficient mpg wise. It also has the potential to be much more dangerous in a serious crash. Google BLEVE (boiling liquid expanding gas explosion). Pretty gnarly.

The only way it makes sense to use LPG pr propane instead of gasoline is if the government gives people our tax money to do it. In other words we'd all pay for it instead of them. That makes perfect sense.
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