City of Tampa Updates Diesel-Powered Fleet with CNG
In a move that is expected to save Tampa taxpayers more than $150,000, Mayor Bob Buckhorn added five compressed natural gas (CNG) trucks to the city’s municipal trash-hauling fleet. The new CNG-powered vehicles were rolled into service at Tampa International Airport last Tuesday. “Replacing our older, diesel-powered garbage trucks with CNG trucks is good business. Continue Reading
U.S. Energy Prices Among Lowest Worldwide
A report titled “How the U.S. Energy Renaissance Is Changing the Global Investment Outlook” was released in late January by the Wall Street economic and policy research firm International Strategy & Investment. Its conclusions offer ample insight into the many changes that have recently occurred in our country’s energy outlook: The International Energy Agency now Continue Reading
Phoenix to Save $4 Million By Switching to Natural Gas Buses
The largest city in Arizona just announced that it will modernize its mass transit fleet to run on cleaner-burning domestic natural gas. Earlier this week, the Phoenix City Council approved plans to purchase 120 buses that will run on compressed natural gas. The new buses carry a total price tag of $61 million and should Continue Reading
Another Company Switches Its Fleet to Natural Gas
The Albuquerque Journal reports that Aztec Well Servicing in Farmington plans to convert its entire fleet of 121 trucks and many of its 13 drilling rigs from diesel to natural gas. According to the Journal, Aztec is part of a growing national trend by commercial fleet operators to convert their vehicles to run on compressed natural gas. Among Continue Reading
Americans Spend $434 Billion On Imported Oil in 2012
America’s dangerous addiction to foreign oil sucked almost half a trillion dollars out of the U.S. economy and shipped it overseas. The recipients? Primarily state-owned oil companies. Worth noting is the fact that the $434 billion that Americans spent on foreign oil last year equals the total amount of unemployment benefits paid to ALL Americans Continue Reading
GE Goes for CNG, Pulls the Plug on All-Electric Fleet
When it comes to electric power, few companies can rival General Electric, whose founding dates back more than a century to Thomas Edison himself. In 2010, the Fortune 500 company made the landmark announcement that it was going to replace its 25,000 diesel- and gas-powered vehicles with an all-electric fleet. But after buying thousands of Continue Reading
Americans Paid $32 Billion for Imported Oil in November
Our country’s dangerous addiction to imported oil led to almost $33 billion exiting the American economy and ending up in the coffers of other countries. Instead of helping to create jobs here at home, those expenditures helped to build the G.D.P. of other countries. Nationwide imports in November resulted in a total import figure of Continue Reading
Big Idea 2013: Governors Take Energy Into Their Own Hands
This week on LinkedIn, I share my “Big Idea” for 2013: The development of new sources of energy – at the state level. Whether there is a grand bargain, a petite bargain, or no bargain at all on ways to decrease the national debt and avoid the fiscal cliff, one thing is clear: The American Continue Reading
Pickens Interviewed on Energy Policy
T. Boone Pickens was recently interviewed by Joseph F. Cotto a writer from Central Florida on the state of an energy plan in American. Pickens told the writer about the vote in the Senate on the Natural Gas Act earlier this year which failed in spite of receiving 51 votes but the bill “needed sixty Continue Reading