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October 25, 2000 Sacramento Offers $70 Million For Diesel Truck Emission Cleanup SACRAMENTO, California, October 25, 2000 (ENS) - The Sacramento Council of Governments is devoting $70 million to helping truckers replace, retrofit and overhaul diesel powered engines. The Sacramento Emergency Clean Air and Transportation program will provide funds to vehicle owners for replacement of old engines with newer engines, use of cleaner diesel formulations such as emulsified diesel, or retrofit of existing engines with emissions control devices. Providing financial incentives to truckers, many of them independent business people, shares the burden of the high cost of replacing older style diesel fleets with ones that are cleaner and more fuel efficient. Most of California's transportation fleets are powered by diesel engines. Diesel powered trucks produce smog. (Photo courtesy CATI) "The new $70 million incentive program is an extraordinary opportunity to clean up Sacramento Valley truck emissions and will assist truckers in improving air quality, and public health while maintaining the benefits offered by diesel engines in providing the most cost effective clean air solution," said Allen Schaeffer, spokesperson for the Diesel Technology Forum. Diesel Technology Forum members - some of the biggest names in the automotive, transportation, fuel refining, exhaust aftertreatment and heavy duty engine industries - are working to improve air quality by developing cleaner diesel engines, low sulfur fuel, and emissions cleanup devices for existing diesel vehicles. "Today's diesel trucks have only one-eighth the level of emissions of a truck built just a dozen years ago, and further improvements are on the horizon for 2004 and 2007. With these tremendous advances in lowering emissions, coupled with these kinds of incentive programs to address existing fleet emissions, clean diesel really does provide more clean air for the dollar," said Schaeffer. More information is available at: http://www.dieselforum.org -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! http://click.egroups.com/1/9699/5/_/837408/_/972551341/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
