Comparative analysis of CNG and LPG usage as a motor fuel. Product competition or mutual complementation?
At the moment, great attention are being paid to development of compressed natural gas (CNG) usage as a motor fuel, which is cleaner and cheaper than gasoline and diesel fuel, by authorities of all levels, the media and business entities of the Russian Federation. The scale of such attention allows us to speak with confidence about the expressed priority of this direction in state policy. At the same time, increasingly unfavorable situation is developing in the sphere of using another, so far the most common alternative type of motor fuel - liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). What are the differences between these types of motor fuels? Should the development of CNG usage be carried out to the detriment LPG? And most importantly: does this state of affairs correspond to the interests of the final consumers of motor fuel - citizens of our country? Answers to these and other questions that should probably be taken into account when determining the vector of development of alternative fuels usage are proposed in this article.