SALT LAKE CITY, UT – The mayor of Salt Lake City criticized Salt Lake County officials for driving sport/utility vehicles (SUVs) despite high gas prices, according to KSL TV.
Read More →Gasoline prices are taking a bigger bite out of household finances and gnawing at local government budgets as well, reported the Times-Dispatch newspaper.
Read More →Escalating gasoline prices have left some Porter County officials searching for ways to manage budgets as fuel costs soar into uncharted territory, according to Northwest Indiana Times newspaper.
Read More →The city of Spokane struck a five-year agreement to sell Spokane on the side of trucks, according to KXLY TV.
Read More →Two thousand five hundred city-owned cars and trucks, including police cruisers and SUVs, zoo vans and trucks, city garbage trucks, and even the bookmobile from the library were recently washed clean, according to WHAS TV.
Read More →The propane industry announced the winners of the fourth annual PROPANE Exceptional Energy Fleet Awards. Five fleets were recognized for exceptional propane-powered fleet applications: the City of San Antonio, TX; El Milagro, Chicago, IL; Island Explorer, Ellsworth, ME; VIA Metropolitan Transit, San Antonio, TX; and Jacksonville Electric Authority, Jacksonville, FL.
Read More →Ford Motor Co. Chairman and CEO Bill Ford Jr. — responding to criticism from environmentalists — told company shareholders that the automaker is committed to spending 50 percent of its research budget on technology designed to boost fuel economy and reduce harmful emissions, according to the Detroit News.
Read More →Salt Lake County's chief financial officer has resigned in the wake of last week's discovery that he used his county-owned vehicle for two personal trips to Lake Powell last year, according to the Salt Lake Desert Morning News.
Read More →The City of Indianapolis is cutting budgets by more than $8 million, according to WISH TV in Indianapolis.
Read More →Those unhappy that the city is considering contracting with private companies for transit, graffiti, and street-sweeping services are particularly upset with City Manager Kevin Northcraft, according to the Tulare Advance-Register.
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