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noe-place
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Sep 09, 2013

Propane engines....

I was re-reading an old article in Mothorhome Magazine where an engineer was discussing the feasibility of replacing the gas engines in rv's with propane powered engines. Anybody have any recent data on such research?
  • all of the "Island Hopper" buses on Mount desert Island in Maine are propane powered. There are a lot of propane powered buses.

    Other than the "green" aspect of it I do not believe there would be any advantage.

    Petroleum companies could make it advantageous by lowering the price of propane since it is a free product from the refining process to make gasoline but it is too expensive.

    unsure what data you are looking for
  • You don't need to change the engine, a gas engine will run on LP gas with only modification to the carburetor and timing.

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