Pennsylvania Set To Dole Out $20 Million For Natural Gas-Fueled Vehicles

Pennsylvania is handing out money for natural gas-fueled vehicle development, and the Department of Environmental Protection wants you to know about it.
The new impact fee law, Act 13, provides $20 million in grants for purchasing natural gas-fueled vehicles, or converting cars and trucks so they run on compressed natural gas, or CNG.
The money will only go to local governments, nonprofit groups, or state-related or owned universities — you can’t apply for a grant to purchase a new family car.

DEP has set up a website with information about the grant program. The portal says the agency will hold forums on natural gas-fueled vehicles over the coming months.
Governor Corbett has said that Pennsylvania will do everything it can to expand the market for natural gas consumption. Putting more CNG-powered cars on the roads is part of that plan. Corbett told a Philadelphia radio station last month that he wants to, “start con­vert­ing the fleets of cars…to nat­ural gas vehi­cles. …So that [drillers] have a mar­ket so they can go to Detroit to get Detroit to start build­ing the vehicles.”
More CNG fueling stations have already been built in Pennsylvania, though most of them are for private access only.

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