With sights set on eliminating carbon emissions, Madison is preparing to use some of the fines Volkswagen paid for cheating on emissions tests to buy diesel buses that will likely be on the road years after VW has stopped making gas and diesel engines.
Madison is in line to receive about $4.8 million in grants and loans from a $32 million pot of money administered by the state Department of Administration that will allow 10 cities to buy 58 new buses.
All but six of those buses will be powered by diesel engines, which generate about twice the climate-warming emissions of electric-powered buses in Wisconsin...
Ken Notes: It is too bad we can not use this one time money to jump start our electric program rather than just buying more diesel units. Even a co-gen gas electric option makes more sense and I`ll bet MGE would help obtain and fuel CNG units. We may need to talk to city hall about this, a few well informed voices (and my readers are very well informed) could change this decision. The only thing necessary for the diesel to prevail is that good environmentalists do nothing.
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