Mayor Bartlett says the project's completion is good for Tulsa's budget.
Tulsa World
By BRIAN BARBER World Staff Writer
Published: 3/9/2011 3:40 AM
Last Modified: 3/9/2011 5:23 AM
As Tulsa officials prepare to increase the city's fuel budget by $1.1 million as a result of rising gas prices, Mayor Dewey Bartlett on Tuesday emphasized the city's long-term commitment to use more compressed-natural-gas vehicles.
It would not only be cheaper, Bartlett said, but it would be better for the environment.
"We need to lead by example," he said.
The mayor announced at a press conference the opening of a high-speed CNG fueling station in the city's west maintenance yard at 420 W. 23rd St.
It can fuel two vehicles simultaneously and will serve the city's 17 vehicles that run on CNG.
The station completes the first phase of an $875,000 project, funded with $477,000 from federal energy grants and money from the city and its trash authority. Five of the CNG vehicles are trash trucks.
Two other phases, including the construction of six CNG fueling points for the trash trucks and a retail CNG fueling station that will be open to the public, are coming up... FULL ARTICLE
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