[sustran] Ethanol Capable trucks

[Farheen Mukri]

> FYI pple. 
> Farheen Mukri 
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> *** U.S. Postal Service orders ethanol-capable trucks
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> WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Postal Service awarded a $206.4
> million contract Friday to Ford Motor Co. for 10,000 ethanol-capable
> carrier trucks, fulfilling a federal mandate that government
> purchases aid the environment. Gasoline or ethanol can power the
> customized vehicles, which have an Explorer-style chassis and
> right-hand drive as required by the Energy Policy Act of 1992. Once
> the 10,000 delivery vehicles are on the road, the Postal Service will
> have the largest fleet of ethanol-capable vehicles in the nation,
> according to Nick Barranca, Postal Service vice president of
> operations support. The new vehicles have aluminum and composite body
> panels and look like vehicles currently in use. The trucks replace an
> aging fleet of Jeeps. See
> http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2556133253-99d
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