Ann Arbor nationally recognized for Green Fleets program

Gas!? Who needs it? Well, OK, we do... at least for the time being. But Ann Arbor doesn't need so much of it these days. The city was nationally recognized recently for its cut backs in car juice.

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Those hybrid vehicles cruising around town are getting noticed.

The city of Ann Arbor's success in using alternative fuels and advanced technology vehicles to keep its fleet green is the focus of a new report today.

Government-Fleet.com reports the city's Green Fleets program is the focus of this week's MotorWeek Clean Cities Success Story. It says the city, which set a goal in 2004 of reducing its fleet's petroleum usage by 10 percent by 2012, has a new goal of 30 percent by the end of 2010.

Read the entire article here.
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