Green Car Congress
About GCC Contact Add to My Yahoo!

« Peugeot Citroën CEO Proposes Payouts for Scrapping Older Cars | Main | Senate Energy Bill Update »

East Baton Rouge Adds CNG to Fleet, Plans More

22 June 2005

East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, is adding its first five CNG vehicles for its fleet: four Honda Civic GXs and one three-quarter-ton Chevy truck. 

Based on its experience with the new vehicles over the past several weeks, the Department of Public Works is planning to replace all of its sedans with CNG vehicles over the next several years as the cars currently in use wear out.

In addition to the clean air aspect of the vehicles, the city-parish will also save approximately $0.65  per gallon on fuel costs with the current high prices of gasoline. 

The  Clean Cities initiative of the Department of Energy contributed to the purchase.  Baton Rouge is the only city in Louisiana that has been granted the Clean City designation, whose purpose is to reduce petroleum use and provide clean air alternatives.

June 22, 2005 in Fleets, Natural Gas | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Comments

Post a comment
[Please keep comments on topic. Disagreement is fine; insults, abuse or wild diversions are not. Comments not meeting those standards will be deleted. Abuse of another commenter’s email address will result in the banning of the offender from this site. In an attempt to prevent the posting of insulting and abusive comments, this site maintains a list of prohibited words and phrases, which, unfortunately, grows with time. Including one of the prohibited words or phrases will flag the comment as “spam”, and it will be blocked.]

Green Car Congress only allows comments from registered users. To comment, please Sign In.

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/22062/2696640

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference East Baton Rouge Adds CNG to Fleet, Plans More:

Green Car Congress © 2008 BioAge Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved. | Home | BioAge Group

From the Dashboard

US Sales of Hybrids Down 50% in November

Us_hybrid_sales_2008nov1
Monthly hybrid sales in November were the lowest since February 2006.

US Sales of Hybrids Down 6% in July 08

Us_hybrid_sales_2008081
US sales of hybrids were down 6% in July 2008 year-on-year, for a new vehicle market share of 2.4% ofr the month.

Global Energy Consumption Up; Coal Fastest Growing Fuel

Bpstat1
The ongoing strength of world economic growth last year, despite financial market turmoil which began in August, continued to support global energy consumption. Although Growth in primary energy consumption slowed in 2007 compared to 2006, but at 2.4% it was still above the 10-year average for the fifth consecutive year, according to the BP Statistical Review of World Energy. Coal remained the fastest-growing fuel, but oil consumption grew slowly.

US VMT Down 1.8% in April; Sixth Straight Month of Declines

Dotapril2
US vehicle miles traveled (VMT) dropped 1.8% in April, for the six monthly decline in a row. Total estimated VMT for the month was 245.9 billion miles. Moving 12-month total shown.

Sales of Cars Pass Trucks Three Months Running

May08sales
Car sales in May exceeded truck sales for the third month in a row, with the gap between the two widening each of those months.