March 26, 2008

Fresno’s Saving Money Using Natural Gas

ARTICLE TOOLS        | E-MailPrint

Send an e-mail to colleagues Please fill out the form below to send a link to this story to your colleagues.
Your Name:	Your E-mail:
Colleagues' E-mail (Separate each address with comma):
Message: (Max. 500 chars.)
Enter the verification code as it is shown below without spaces. (Not case-sensitive) Enter Code: What's this? Image Code Verification Automated programs can't "read" the code you see in the box: only humans can. When you enter this code, it ensures that your order is going to a real person. If you don't see an image, make sure your browser is set to display images and try again. If you're not sure what the code is, make your best guess. If you're incorrect, you'll get another chance to enter a different code on the next screen. Close
CANCEL

FRESNO, CA – Filling more garbage trucks with super cooled liquid natural gas is paying off in a big way for the City of Fresno. With the price of diesel fuel skyrocketing, so far this year the City has been forced to pay out $400,000 dollars more to fuel its fleet than budgeted, reported in www.abc30.com  

By using a federal refund of 50 cents on every gallon spent on green fuel, a lot less of the taxpayers green has been spent keeping the trucks rolling. If they had not switched to liquid natural gas, they would have been over $1.2 million instead.  

Compared to the typical diesel garbage truck the city’s 80 natural gas powered ones are not only cheaper to run they’re quieter and don’t pollute the air as much.

The City of Clovis will soon start replacing older street sweepers and then garbage trucks with newer ones that run on compressed natural gas. For every dollar of fuel the vehicles will burn, they will save over two dollars a gallon compared to diesel.

By 2010, Fresno plans to replace its’ entire fleet of garbage trucks by ones that run on natural gas.

[ Request more info about this product/service/company ]

Request More Info Fill out the form below to request more info regarding the company/product/service featured in the story.
* Name:	Company:
* E-mail:	Phone:
Preferred contact method: EmailPhone
I would like info on the following:
Enter the verification code as it is shown below without spaces. (Not case-sensitive) Enter Code: What's this? Image Code Verification Automated programs can't "read" the code you see in the box: only humans can. When you enter this code, it ensures that your order is going to a real person. If you don't see an image, make sure your browser is set to display images and try again. If you're not sure what the code is, make your best guess. If you're incorrect, you'll get another chance to enter a different code on the next screen. Close
CANCEL