The governors of Colorado, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Wyoming have taken a giant step towards ensuring America’s energy security by committing vehicle fleets in each of their respective states to utilizing more cleaner burning, domestic natural gas.
Governors John Hickenlooper of Colorado, Mary Fallin of Oklahoma, Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania, and Matthew Mead of Wyoming signed a Memorandum of Understanding today to encourage U.S. automakers to develop affordable vehicles that run on natural gas.
“Not only do we not send billions of dollars out of the country, it’s a cleaner-burning fuel that is significantly less expensive,” Hickenlooper said in announcing the effort at a Colorado Natural Gas Vehicle Coalition workshop.
The bi-partisan announcement echoes a longstanding pillar of the Pickens Plan, which encourages leaders at local, regional, state, and national levels to phase out existing vehicle fleets that run on imported diesel by acquiring vehicles that run on America’s abundant natural gas.
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