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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TerryMiller" data-source="post: 1958423" data-attributes="member: 7900">CNG may be different from LP, but back when I lived on the farm, we had our trucks and pickups converted to run on LP.  The farm trucks had dedicated carbs so they ran on LP only.  My FIL had his pickup set up that way as well.  I insisted on having dual fuel because I knew that the LP was hard on the valves of the engines.  With the dual fuel pickup, I had to make it a point to occasionally drive for 50 to 100 miles on regular gasoline or the seals in the carb would dry out from running on LP vapor.I can't remember how many times I had to go back to the house, hook onto the trailer with the 500 gallon LP tank attached, and tow that to where my FIL was because he wasn't watching his gauge.Even now with "flex fuel" vehicles, I learned something.  My F150 is like that and the owner's manual states to be sure and drive the truck on non-ethanol fuel every so often.  So, apparently the ethanol is not necessarily good for the engines either.I drive in too many rural areas to ever consider a CNG vehicle.  And for daily commutes, we only drive 3 miles one way anyway.</blockquote>