Ah, if only we had the political will to follow up… though some of the engineering logic stated below leaves a lot to be desired.
Dateline 2011-03-01:
Reason No.1
Malaysia has abundant gas reserves, now standing at 2.35 trillion cu m versus oil reserves of 2.9 billion bbl. In less than 10 years, our oil reserves are going to be depleted. We should tap the potential of natural gas, as it gives us cleaner fuel.Reason 2
The cost of converting the vehicle to run compressed natural gas (cng) and petrol is between RM3000-RM5000. Again there is a lot of cost saving in the long run as natural gas is less volatile compared to petrol. Again the government to provide incentives for the conversion cost.
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Wata - Malaysian Oil and Gas Engineer 
Wata, honestly i like reading your blog. Don’t have to buy star and scour through the pages for oil and gas news. But again, there is nothing new here.
We know everything will run out soon, ngv vehicles has been around since 1930s. Is that the best they can do?
I believe energy specialist like you with the help of IEM should be the driving force of technology to malaysia. You may call it lobbying to the government for some sort of improvement or solution to malaysia’s future energy crisis.
If not IEM, who else?
I personnally think IEM is a bunch of xxxxx. Anyway, being forced to join it……. much of it due to necessity.
IEM lobbying? not too likely…..
I dont know. Lobbying is really hard if you are up against the oil company, automaker etc. Australia have one of the largest resource of NG but they still rely on gasoline for their cars. While Australian people care for their environment, Australia have not signed the Kyoto Protocol yet despite the majority of Australian want their government to do so even with the carbon credit trade is in plan.
Majority of Americans want to banned assault weapons be it republican or democrat but NRA lobbying (with a lot of money of course) prevent them on doing so.
For me, if the automaker can go to the NG engine direction then it might take off but not for the foreseeable future as they prefer small turbocharged petrol or hybrid engines for now.