22 state governors tell OEMs they're ready to buy more CNG vehicles

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper is leading a coalition of 22 states to buy up to 10,000 new compressed natural gas cars and pickups per year. The big idea is to present joint bids that would spur production, encouraging automakers to build CNG vehicles at their assembly plants instead of converting them from existing vehicles after the fact. Hickenlooper says this production volume is enough to force a change. "If you do it off the assembly line, it's hardly any additional cost," he told the Detroit News . Hickenlooper and some of his governor colleagues have been at this campaign for a few months. In April, he and 12 other governors sent letters to automakers saying they were committed to exploring ways to purchase more CNG vehicles for their state fleets. In July, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, Hickenlooper and other officials even met with U.S. automakers in Detroit to ...

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