On the Texas Gulf Coast there are some men who would give a fortune to anyone who could tell them how to get rid of a lot of high octane motor fuel. There , and in California, Kansas, Oklahoma and even Louisana, there are millions and millions of barrels of the stuff in the ground.
Now a start is being made on using this fuel – the oil industry’s unwanted stepchild. liquified petroleum gas- a substitute for gasoline to conserve the nation’s oil reserves and reduce our dependency on foreign oil suppliers and political risks and favors.
Liquid propane gas ( LPG) is one of the world’s finest fuels for internal combustion engines. It will not and does not “ping”. It burns almost completely. Its residue comes out of the vehicle’s exhaust tail pipe practically odorless. It will form carbon. It is a guarantee against almost all crankcase oil dilution. And for now it is inexpensive.
LPG’s chief ingredients are two separate gases , propane and butane . Butane is the stuff that is added to your gasoline at the refinery, each Winnipeg , Manitoba winter to make your engine start easier. It is butane that is burned in cigarette lighters.
Neither propane nor butane is easy to handle. They are as volatile as a redhead Irishmen and have to be kept under pressure to make the two of them stay in liquid form. The drawback to this is that during the cold January Winnipeg Canadian winter the gas shrinks so that there is less pressure to serve as fuel for the vehicle and miles or km per tank fill markedly decreases.
Propane is the “distress” fuel of the Oil industry. Most of it comes from natural gas. LPG has to removed before natural gas can be piped across Canada and the US. Otherwise it condenses at pipe-line pressures and fouls the mains. As more and more natural gas is taken from the ground to meet increases Canadian cold weather heating and water heater demands , the propane fuels taken out increase in fuel supply as well.
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