Postal Service Wants To Green It’s Fleet
The postal service is looking into converting 195,000 of its delivery fleet to non-petroleum fueled vehicles. This is 90% of it’s delivery vehicles. The cost of gas is driving them away from fossil fuels. With a fleet of vehicles this large every single penny gas goes up per gallon adds $8 million annually to the company’s expenses. Last year, the Postal Service spent $1.7 billion on fuel and they expect to pay another $600 million this year.
They are no strangers to green cars. The Postal Service has over 43,000 alternative fuel vehicles already including hybrid-electric, compressed natural gas, liquid propane gas, ethanol (E-85), biodiesel and hydrogen fuel cell. Photo credit Wikipedia Commons.
