CNG Chat Radio; Converting to Alternative Fuels, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.

Curtis Martin is the Alternative Fuels Manager for Robertson's Palmdale Honda in Palmdale, Ca. Located in the high desert, 65 miles North of Los Angeles. Curtis has been involved with the Civic GX Natural Gas Civic since he started at Robertson's in 1991.

William H. 'Bill' McGlinchey Mr. McGlinchey has over thirty years of technical automotive experience, the last sixteen dedicated to alternative fuels. His work has focused on training, teaching, most recently, alternative fuels curriculum development, grant writing and funding support. He retired from West Virginia University in June of 2002. He has since formed his own consulting company, AFV International, and begun offering alternative fuel training services internationally with successful contracts in France, Bangladesh, Nigeria, the Philippines and South America.

He has an extensive automotive background with conventional fuels prior to converting (pardon the pun) to alternative fuels. He was an automotive trainer for Allen Testproducts (now SPX Corporation). He has taught in both private and public schools. He received patents for several engineering designs at Combustion Engineering Inc. and Western Electric before starting his own conversion company in the 1979. His formal education is in Industrial Engineering at Ohio State University. And last, but not least, he practices what he preaches and has over 250,000 miles on his personal vehicles, a natural gas Ford van, a Nissan 300ZX he's converting to run on propane and a Bradley GT electric vehicle.

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