On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 09:25:55 -0800, jim beam wrote:

> Joe LaVigne wrote:
>> On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 02:33:32 -0800, ElisabethBaker wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for your responses!
>>>
>>> I have international experience with manual transmission, and a year's
>>> experience with CNG,
>>> so Andy & Carol I know I want manual, and Art, JXStern and Jim Beam I
>>> know I don't want CNG (=natural gas =Civic GX food)
>>> CNG is too inconvenient to find -- I have to spend a lot of time
>>> driving out of my way to get it.
>>>
>>> I have driven with LPG (=LP Gas =autogas) in Europe and wonder, Jim
>>> Beam, how you find it more expensive.
>>> I have understood it to be better for the wallet as well as for the
>>> environment.
>>>
>>> Maybe worldlpgas.com can give me an idea when/where such a car will be
>>> available here in the US, or if you find anything, please do post me!
>>>
>>> Thanks again for your time!
>>> Elisabeth
>>>
>>> On Dec 16, 10:55 am, "ElisabethBaker" <Elisabeth.G.Ba...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Honda vehicle...manual transmission...built (not modified) to
>>>> run on LPG...want to buy it (new or used) in the United States.
>>>> Where should I look?
>>
>> As far as I can tell, Honda does not make a LPG propelled vehicle
>> (production). At least for the US market.
>>
>> And the GX does not come in a manual.
>>
>> I am kind of leary of driving any vehicle with an explosive pressurized
>> tank, though. Just my own thing, I guess...
>
> if you're leery of lpg, how do you feel about hydrogen???

The same. Anything that puts a pressurized tank of explosive material in
a position to be impacted in a crash is a little scary to me.

Just having a pressurized tanks of anything is dangerous in a crash. Even
a highly pressurized tank of air being impacted would not be very safe.