There’s a new study out that according to some freight trucking professionals conducting long haul services on the streets and highways of the United States points to the use of liquid natural gas as a very effective option for reducing the carbon wheel-print of America’s freight shipping industry. This new study was conducted by the Resources for the Future and the National Energy Policy Institute and was called Toward a New National Energy Policy: Accessing the Options. It apparently also includes an economic analysis of more than 35 available policy options for reducing the United States reliance on oil and decreasing carbon emissions in the United States of America in the years ahead in the century of the environment. The actual analysis was apparently carried out by an independent, non-partisan independent energy research organization, based at the Univerity of Tulsa and funded by the George Kaiser Family Foundation.
The study of the feasibility of using liquid natural gas in heavy haul transport vehicles was one of the main things this study looked at, according to sources, and the study even concluded that liquid natural gas is a feasible alternative to gas and diesel for use in America’s transport trucks. It also concluded that using heavy duty trucks implementing liquid natural gas could reduce oil consumption in the United States by as much as 2.2 million barrels per day by the time we reach 2030.
Sources close to this news bit indicate that it could be possible to see more LNG heavy duty trucks on the transport roads of the United States by the end of 2011. The numbers according to sources could increase fast over the next decade, and by 2020, we could see a significant percentage of new heavy duty transport trucks running on liquid natural gas being purchased in America. Probably a little surprising to some freight industry professionals in America, but considering the desire to reduce the carbon wheel-print of transport trucks on the roads of America, we probably shouldn’t be that surprised by this news.
Tags: freight shipping, heavy haul, long haul