CNG News: 02 June, 2010

SEAT’s chairman put his eyes on CNG

James Muir, chairman of Seat’s Executive Committee, recently declared that CNG-powered vehicles could perfectly suit to the end of the “oil age” in the automotive industry. During a lunch in Barcelona, he said that electric engines are not the only alternative to face with the shortage of oil, and that compressed natural gas can turn into a valuable fuel. “I will lobby for this kind of energy”, he stated. According to the executive of the Spanish brand, the governments should invest more in research and work in partnership with the OEMs in order to boost natural gas as a transportation fuel. He also forecasted that fossil fuels will run out sooner than people think, and that this will cause prices increases. Muir’s words line up with Sergio Marchionne’s considerations. The chairman and CEO of Fiat and Chrysler had expressed a few months ago that “CNG is the only real and immediate alternative to petroleum”. Marchionne had pronounced in a famous English publication that the financial crisis caused a change in the way of doing things, and consequently forced everyone to think of environmentally focused solutions. In that sense, natural gas “is the most eco-friendly fuel available and the cheapest for customers”, he pointed out. GET Worldwide: CNG reciprocating compressor - CNG consultancy