The enormous resources of the Marcellus Shale could soon be powering all state vehicles in Pennsylvania, one of several states that sits atop the huge natural gas field in the Northeast. That’s just one of the many intriguing elements to a comprehensive plan proposed by Republican legislators called “Marcellus Works.”
Other elements include building a series of natural gas fueling stations along the Pennsylvania turnpike.
According to House GOP Policy Chair Stan Saylor, “No state has taken up the challenge T. Boone Pickens put out there, as he has talked about other states using our natural resources to clean and up and create jobs. Somebody has to be first.”
The conversion of the state’s 16, 000 car fleet to natural gas would cost about $10 million and take about three years to see the savings.
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