Natural gas for B.C. cars?

VANCOUVER (UPC) -
Cars could soon be running
on compressed natural gas
and the British Columbia
government hopes to prove
it in a three-month test, B.C.
Science Minister Pat
McGeer said Wednesday.

McGeer told a news
conference running vehicles
on natural gas rather than
just on conventional oil-
derived gas would eliminate
Canada's dependence on oil
imports, now costing $16
million per day.

“We have all the fuel
requirements to operate
personal transportdtion

systems now and far into the .

future if we only develop the
technology to the point
where we can use our own
resources,” McGeer said.

He said British Columbia
has at least a 50-year natural
gas supply. If every car in
the province was converted
to run on the fuel, it would
require less than a 40-
percent production increase
and no new pipelines to

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A car and van have been
converted to a duel fuel
system - natural gas and
conventional gasoline - for a
three-month test. If it proves
feasible, McGeer said, B.C.
Hydro and the University of
B.C. are considering con-
verting their fleets to the
system.

Private cars could be
converted in the future by
adding two small storage
tanks, a pressure regulator
and several other small parts
$1,500, or less if
conversion kits are miass-
produced.

McGeer said compressed
natural gas would be sold to
service stations for about 6.6
cents per litre, compared to
the current price for con-
ventional gas of 17 cents per
litre.

While conventional gas-
driven cars would have more
power, natural gas-powered
vehicles would produce less
pollution and be safer and
easier to start, he said.

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The Science Ministed
noted New Zealand has
already embarked on a

program “that will even-

tually see one-third of that
country’s cars and trucks
converted to natural gas.”

Should the B.C. trial prove
effective, McGeer said he
would recommend the
province lift all road taxes on
natural gas and offer in-
centives to private retailers
to install natural gas by
providing it at an economic
rate.

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