Chuck
01-23-2008, 08:25 AM
No more expensive than conventional diesel school buses - safer on ice roads (http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080123/NEWS/801230379/-1/SPORTS09)
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/School_Bus_Safety.jpgJacqueline Lee - Des Moines Register - Jan 23, 2008
Two Iowa school districts have grabbed the wheel in a drive to reduce public education's collective carbon footprint.
About 200 members of the Iowa Association of School Boards took a field trip to the Statehouse on Tuesday to lobby lawmakers for more education money. They showed up in a pair of hybrid school buses owned by the Sigourney and Nevada school districts.
Most school bus fleets consist of diesel-engine buses. The educators say the more expensive hybrid models are cheaper in the long run because they are more energy-efficient.
But there's another selling point.
"A diesel bus is loud, and if you had one here today, you would also smell the difference," said the association's Margaret Buckton...http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080123/NEWS/801230379/-1/SPORTS09
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/School_Bus_Safety.jpgJacqueline Lee - Des Moines Register - Jan 23, 2008
Two Iowa school districts have grabbed the wheel in a drive to reduce public education's collective carbon footprint.
About 200 members of the Iowa Association of School Boards took a field trip to the Statehouse on Tuesday to lobby lawmakers for more education money. They showed up in a pair of hybrid school buses owned by the Sigourney and Nevada school districts.
Most school bus fleets consist of diesel-engine buses. The educators say the more expensive hybrid models are cheaper in the long run because they are more energy-efficient.
But there's another selling point.
"A diesel bus is loud, and if you had one here today, you would also smell the difference," said the association's Margaret Buckton...http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080123/NEWS/801230379/-1/SPORTS09