Pickens is targeting the trucking industry as the place to make an immediate and lasting dent. The U.S. trucking industry is on track to spend in excess of $155 billion on fuel this year, which would be a record. If even as much as one-fourth of that diesel tab could be converted to an alternative fuel such as CNG, it would make a significant dent on this country’s reliance on unstable sources of important gasoline and diesel. [pullquote align=”right”]As founding chairman of Dallas-based BP Capital Management and board member of Clean Energy Fuels, T. Boone Pickens obviously has a personal stake in converting part of the trucking industry over to CNG. He stands to make millions. Yet carrier companies are still listening to what he has to say.[/pullquote]
One of the reasons Pickens is pitching his CNG plan to trucking fleets is because of the infrastructure necessary to transport the fuel. It must be cooled to remain in a liquefied state. That means an entirely new network of transportation and distribution channels. It is easier to convert perhaps a couple of thousand of truck stop locations to handle CNG than it would be to convert a couple million mom-and-pop gasoline stations.
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