All Aboard! Edmond Buses to Use CNG Fuel

Soon city buses in Edmond will turn over to natural gas and show a savings of $38,000 per year. This will be the first city-owned buses to use CNG or compressed natural gas fuel. Clear, odorless, and non-corrosive, it is a more environmentally clean alternative to gasoline, diesel, or propane. When mixed with biogas produced from landfills or wastewater, it does not release the concentration of carbon in the atmosphere.

The project, which will include using a conversion kit, will be aided by a $250,000 federal stimulus grant. Currently, CNG fuel is $1.39 a gallon, and unleaded gas $3 a gallon.

Shannon Entz, Edmond's community development manager, thinks this idea is favorable for everyone. The taxpayers will be saving money, and the fuel will be purchased locally at Edmond's OnCue Express, a chain of convenience stores located throughout Oklahoma.

The buses will also be purchased with stimulus money and should last up to eight years. This along with the fact the conversion kits can be used on additional vehicles adds another positive note to the change.

It is also said that this American product is quite a bit greener than traditional gas. We are not only stepping away from international oil, but we are also sending less emission into the air. More filling stations from OnCue are expected to open throughout the state in hopes other areas will follow suit with the cleaner form of fuel. To top it off, compressed natural gas is also an Oklahoma product, so we in turn are keeping money in our area.

Isn't it time for you to move to an area that is interested in keeping the air clean, saving money and keeping money in its area?

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