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Shale Gas Boom Drives Surge in Propane-Fueled Vehicles

2013-03-07 18:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Yale Environment 360: The U.S. satellite TV provider DISH Network Corporation has announced it will introduce 200 propane-fueled vans to its fleet in 2013, another sign that propane, like natural gas, is offering an increasingly cost-effective transportation fuel alternative to gasoline and diesel. While there are already more than 13 million propane-fueled vehicles worldwide, propane historically has been considered a niche fuel because of high production costs. But driven by the surge in domestic shale oil and gas production,...

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