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From: jrhana	7/8/2009 3:40:05 PM
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Ritter seeks more natural-gas vehicles Listen to this article or download audio file.Click-2-Listen By DENNIS WEBB/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel gjsentinel.com Tuesday, July 07, 2009 Gov. Bill Ritter said Tuesday that his Energy Office has joined in seeking a $10 million federal grant to boost use of compressed natural gas by industry, transit and public vehicles in the state. The effort is aimed at increasing demand for natural gas produced in the state while converting vehicles to a cleaner-burning fuel. Ritter’s Energy Office has applied for a $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, working in partnership with the Southern and Northern Colorado Clean Cities Coalitions and Clean Energy, a supplier of compressed natural gas for transportation. The grant would help fund a $27.6 million project to deploy 68 heavy-duty natural gas vehicles and build five new compressed natural gas fueling stations across Colorado. The state now has 18 of the stations. Project partners would pick up the remaining cost of the project. It is designed to link two of the proposed stations to ones along the Interstate 25 corridor in Wyoming and the I-70 corridor in Utah. The Ritter administration said in a news release that running a vehicle on natural gas instead of gasoline cuts carbon dioxide emissions by 30 percent and nearly eliminates emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxide and volatile organic compounds. The new initiative follows a drilling slowdown in Colorado in the wake of falling natural gas prices nationally. Colorado gas yields even lower prices because of limited pipeline availability to ship it to distant markets, and industry officials have called for encouraging use of natural gas by vehicles as one way of creating more of an in-state market. Ritter said in a statement, “We are working closely with our industry partners to increase natural gas demand in Colorado with efforts like this one.”

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