Posted by rrlund on March 04, 2012 at 08:44:11 from (207.241.137.116):
In Reply to: Propane power posted by Edd in KY on March 04, 2012 at 08:26:55:
The biggest selling point was the cost of the fuel. When my Dad was trasnportation supervisor at the school,they changed all the busses over to propane when gas prices went sky high. This was early 80s if I remember right since he retired in 86 I believe. I can tell you one problem he had. In extreme cold weather,they wouldn't start. Something in the regulator or some part of the system would freeze up. He would have to go in real early in the morning in extreme weather and heat all of them,one at a time,with a hair dryer to get them all started. Another problem they had at that time was accessing gas when they sent the busses on long trips. I think they ended up with 2 gas or diesel busses for just such ocasions.
As far as tractors,back in the short lived boom in agriculture in the mid 70s,used tractors were hard to get. A guy that we knew wanted more power and all he could find was a Case 930 LP. He ended up having the fuel supplier mount a tank on a trailer for them so they could haul gas to the tractor instead of having to drive the tractor home to get fuel all the time. The way he put it,they were leading that old horse to water an awful lot.
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