Comments on: Propane Powered Mowers Cut Grass, Emissions, and Prices http://gas2.org/2009/07/13/propane-powered-mowers-cut-grass-emissions-and-prices/ What is the future of fuel? What's new? What's next? Since 2007, Gas 2 has covered a rapidly changing world coming to terms with its oil addiction. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:57:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cruising The Country in a Propane F150 - Part 1 : Gas 2.0 http://gas2.org/2009/07/13/propane-powered-mowers-cut-grass-emissions-and-prices/#comment-10477 Cruising The Country in a Propane F150 - Part 1 : Gas 2.0 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:07:39 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=2887#comment-10477 [...] tweetmeme_url="http://gas2.org/2009/08/18/cruising-the-country-in-a-propane-f150-part-1/";A few weeks ago I met Todd Mouw with Roush Manufacturing (many of you may know the company from its work in motorsports) who was displaying a Ford F250 converted to run on propane. I talked him into letting me take it for a spin through Ft. Worth, Texas. From there, I convinced him to let me take a liquid propane injection (LPJ) F150, model year 2007, across the country (I’m technically on vacation). I know that propane is not a new technology -it’s been used as a fuel since the 1930s- but in America, it is rarely used in vehicles outside of fleets, but is gaining momentum and can now be used in applications such as lawn mowers. [...] [...] tweetmeme_url=”http://gas2.org/2009/08/18/cruising-the-country-in-a-propane-f150-part-1/”;A few weeks ago I met Todd Mouw with Roush Manufacturing (many of you may know the company from its work in motorsports) who was displaying a Ford F250 converted to run on propane. I talked him into letting me take it for a spin through Ft. Worth, Texas. From there, I convinced him to let me take a liquid propane injection (LPJ) F150, model year 2007, across the country (I’m technically on vacation). I know that propane is not a new technology -it’s been used as a fuel since the 1930s- but in America, it is rarely used in vehicles outside of fleets, but is gaining momentum and can now be used in applications such as lawn mowers. [...]

]]> By: Joseph http://gas2.org/2009/07/13/propane-powered-mowers-cut-grass-emissions-and-prices/#comment-10476 Joseph Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:24:17 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=2887#comment-10476 Goldstein, what are the facts and what is misleading about it? As a publisher shouldn't you know how to back up your statements? I'm not trying to be a dick, but I would like to know what the alternatives are. I've been on your site and it's jumbled mess. Please tell me, us, which engines are more efficient and better suited (I do not doubt there are better alternatives, but you don't tell us what they are, are you trying to keep it a secret. Don't want to share your green knowledge? Stop hording it.) Which statements are misleading? I need to know this as well since I may be making a purchase soon. And what is the other side to propane? And before you take yourself too seriously, this is just a blog. At the end of the day everyone, including most uptight publishers of trade magazines, should not hold blogs to the same standard as traditionally published material. Goldstein, what are the facts and what is misleading about it? As a publisher shouldn’t you know how to back up your statements?

I’m not trying to be a dick, but I would like to know what the alternatives are. I’ve been on your site and it’s jumbled mess.

Please tell me, us, which engines are more efficient and better suited (I do not doubt there are better alternatives, but you don’t tell us what they are, are you trying to keep it a secret. Don’t want to share your green knowledge? Stop hording it.)

Which statements are misleading? I need to know this as well since I may be making a purchase soon.

And what is the other side to propane?

And before you take yourself too seriously, this is just a blog. At the end of the day everyone, including most uptight publishers of trade magazines, should not hold blogs to the same standard as traditionally published material.

]]> By: Joseph http://gas2.org/2009/07/13/propane-powered-mowers-cut-grass-emissions-and-prices/#comment-34488 Joseph Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:24:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=2887#comment-34488 Goldstein, what are the facts and what is misleading about it? As a publisher shouldn't you know how to back up your statements? I'm not trying to be a dick, but I would like to know what the alternatives are. I've been on your site and it's jumbled mess. Please tell me, us, which engines are more efficient and better suited (I do not doubt there are better alternatives, but you don't tell us what they are, are you trying to keep it a secret. Don't want to share your green knowledge? Stop hording it.) Which statements are misleading? I need to know this as well since I may be making a purchase soon. And what is the other side to propane? And before you take yourself too seriously, this is just a blog. At the end of the day everyone, including most uptight publishers of trade magazines, should not hold blogs to the same standard as traditionally published material. Goldstein, what are the facts and what is misleading about it? As a publisher shouldn’t you know how to back up your statements?

I’m not trying to be a dick, but I would like to know what the alternatives are. I’ve been on your site and it’s jumbled mess.

Please tell me, us, which engines are more efficient and better suited (I do not doubt there are better alternatives, but you don’t tell us what they are, are you trying to keep it a secret. Don’t want to share your green knowledge? Stop hording it.)

Which statements are misleading? I need to know this as well since I may be making a purchase soon.

And what is the other side to propane?

And before you take yourself too seriously, this is just a blog. At the end of the day everyone, including most uptight publishers of trade magazines, should not hold blogs to the same standard as traditionally published material.

]]> By: spunker88 http://gas2.org/2009/07/13/propane-powered-mowers-cut-grass-emissions-and-prices/#comment-10475 spunker88 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:23:03 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=2887#comment-10475 If gas stations starting allowing self serve propane, which would hook onto a standard propane tank, meaning you could fill and reuse tanks, cutting costs even further. It would then be worth it. Those little green tanks may be cheap now, but imagine reusing them just like a gas tank. If gas stations starting allowing self serve propane, which would hook onto a standard propane tank, meaning you could fill and reuse tanks, cutting costs even further. It would then be worth it. Those little green tanks may be cheap now, but imagine reusing them just like a gas tank.

]]> By: spunker88 http://gas2.org/2009/07/13/propane-powered-mowers-cut-grass-emissions-and-prices/#comment-34487 spunker88 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:23:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=2887#comment-34487 If gas stations starting allowing self serve propane, which would hook onto a standard propane tank, meaning you could fill and reuse tanks, cutting costs even further. It would then be worth it. Those little green tanks may be cheap now, but imagine reusing them just like a gas tank. If gas stations starting allowing self serve propane, which would hook onto a standard propane tank, meaning you could fill and reuse tanks, cutting costs even further. It would then be worth it. Those little green tanks may be cheap now, but imagine reusing them just like a gas tank.

]]> By: Denne Goldstein http://gas2.org/2009/07/13/propane-powered-mowers-cut-grass-emissions-and-prices/#comment-10474 Denne Goldstein Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:39:07 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=2887#comment-10474 As publisher of a trade magazine whose readers are professional landscape contractors. Your writer needs to get his facts right. Although propane is growing in the market, there are other engines that are more efficient and better suited for lawn mowers. As a writer, or a wanna be writer, he needs to do more research before he puts out an article. Your position as a publisher is to make sure what you publish is correct. Some of his statements are misleading, more importantly he does not show the other side oo propand. As publisher of a trade magazine whose readers are professional landscape contractors. Your writer needs to get his facts right. Although propane is growing in the market, there are other engines that are more efficient and better suited for lawn mowers. As a writer, or a wanna be writer, he needs to do more research before he puts out an article. Your position as a publisher is to make sure what you publish is correct. Some of his statements are misleading, more importantly he does not show the other side oo propand.

]]> By: Denne Goldstein http://gas2.org/2009/07/13/propane-powered-mowers-cut-grass-emissions-and-prices/#comment-34486 Denne Goldstein Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:39:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=2887#comment-34486 As publisher of a trade magazine whose readers are professional landscape contractors. Your writer needs to get his facts right. Although propane is growing in the market, there are other engines that are more efficient and better suited for lawn mowers. As a writer, or a wanna be writer, he needs to do more research before he puts out an article. Your position as a publisher is to make sure what you publish is correct. Some of his statements are misleading, more importantly he does not show the other side oo propand. As publisher of a trade magazine whose readers are professional landscape contractors. Your writer needs to get his facts right. Although propane is growing in the market, there are other engines that are more efficient and better suited for lawn mowers. As a writer, or a wanna be writer, he needs to do more research before he puts out an article. Your position as a publisher is to make sure what you publish is correct. Some of his statements are misleading, more importantly he does not show the other side oo propand.

]]> By: Eric B http://gas2.org/2009/07/13/propane-powered-mowers-cut-grass-emissions-and-prices/#comment-10473 Eric B Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:11:48 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=2887#comment-10473 Dixie Chopper (not the brands you cite) built the first propane-powered mowers with a 990cc engine designed to run on propane -- not a conversion kit. Dixie has been building propane-powered mowers since 2005 and even undertook a cross-country adventure, driving a propane-powered mower from Indiana to Sacramento, Calif., in April-May 2007 (Clean Cut Across America), in a attempt to generate publicity on the cost savings and environmental savings that could be had with a propane-powered mower. Suggest you check out dixiechopper.com or cleancutacrossamerica.com for information. Dixie Chopper (not the brands you cite) built the first propane-powered mowers with a 990cc engine designed to run on propane — not a conversion kit. Dixie has been building propane-powered mowers since 2005 and even undertook a cross-country adventure, driving a propane-powered mower from Indiana to Sacramento, Calif., in April-May 2007 (Clean Cut Across America), in a attempt to generate publicity on the cost savings and environmental savings that could be had with a propane-powered mower. Suggest you check out dixiechopper.com or cleancutacrossamerica.com for information.

]]> By: Eric B http://gas2.org/2009/07/13/propane-powered-mowers-cut-grass-emissions-and-prices/#comment-34485 Eric B Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:11:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=2887#comment-34485 Dixie Chopper (not the brands you cite) built the first propane-powered mowers with a 990cc engine designed to run on propane -- not a conversion kit. Dixie has been building propane-powered mowers since 2005 and even undertook a cross-country adventure, driving a propane-powered mower from Indiana to Sacramento, Calif., in April-May 2007 (Clean Cut Across America), in a attempt to generate publicity on the cost savings and environmental savings that could be had with a propane-powered mower. Suggest you check out dixiechopper.com or cleancutacrossamerica.com for information. Dixie Chopper (not the brands you cite) built the first propane-powered mowers with a 990cc engine designed to run on propane — not a conversion kit. Dixie has been building propane-powered mowers since 2005 and even undertook a cross-country adventure, driving a propane-powered mower from Indiana to Sacramento, Calif., in April-May 2007 (Clean Cut Across America), in a attempt to generate publicity on the cost savings and environmental savings that could be had with a propane-powered mower. Suggest you check out dixiechopper.com or cleancutacrossamerica.com for information.

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