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They get short shrift in the mediabut they nonetheless have a power-ful story—including an importanttransit bus presence—and are mak-ing their case here.

Natural gas vehicles: ‘America’sBest Kept Secret.’ —See Page 9

Clean ’em up: Gaseous fuels companies are looking abroadfor new business, and finding it. ESI, for one, has federalsupport for a program to convert engines by India’s Tataand others to propane operation. —See Page 6

Honda Stands by NGVsAmerican Honda is now the only auto-maker to offer a natural gas passenger carin the U.S., as the company is standing byits Civic GX in 2006. —See Page 7

Biodiesel MomentumDiesel Jeep Liberty vehicles get their fac-tory fill with B5 biodiesel now, as DaimlerOKs B20 for fleets. —See Page 8

Vital ConnectionsOPW makes the valves, couplers and hosesthat are vital to all fueling, and is steppingup its work on alternatives. —See Page 10

The Tried and EconomicalGM is emphasizing ethanol now, with threeE85-capable vehicles on show, as well as aneconomical ‘mild’ hybrid. —See Page 11

ENGVA Brussels 2006Biogas dominates discussions at Europeannatural gas vehicle meeting late last monthin Brussels, but while the Europeans areahead on biogas implementation, they arewell behind liquid biofuels on the all-im-portant publicity front. —See Page 12

Will Governments Act?Biofuel action and a court ruling on city andprivate fleets have alternative fuel advocatescautiously optimistic. —See Page 13

Gaseous Fuels:Poised to Pounce

Our issues have hit the mainstream as gasoline priceshave hit $3. Hand-wringing over fuel costs has gone be-yond the policy wonks and alt fuel wallahs to the gen-eral public—which means of course that the marketopportunities are better than ever.

Even President Bush has chimed in, touting tech-nologies ranging beyond his futuristic favorite hydro-gen to ethanol and even plug-in hybrids.

Lots of old friends are here, many of them with newand improved product offerings: GM’s emphasizing thehere-and-now with E85-capable vehicles and new low-cost hybrids, and Honda has an improved version of itsdedicated-CNG Honda Civic GX.

Biofuels are riding a crest of favorable publicity, withethanol and biodiesel getting most of the attention.Gaseous fuel advocates remain in the game, with sub-stantial successes in heavy duty vehicles (don’t miss Cum-mins Westport and Clean Energy here this year), andgaseous fuels may well be the dark horse in biofuels: bio-methane has some serious technological advantages andcould conceivably break away from the pack.

The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers is launch-ing a multi-million dollar national ad campaign today,touting its members’ commitment to alternative fuels.Is it for real? You decide. —See Page 5

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It’s not all work, and folks enjoyed themselves at the GM-sponsored reception at the Bentley Projects Art Gallery yes-terday evening. In the back row are Tom Gross, Will Kleindienst and Jeff Groscost; in the middle row we have CharlieKer, Colleen Crowninshield, Jim Boyd and Lydia Ciemniak; in the front row are Kimberly Taylor, Jim Harger and jennaHiggins. The theme of the party? Art Extreme, Rhythm Extreme, Extremely General Motors.

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Dear Clean Cities Attendee,

Welcome to the Clean Cities Congress. As one who hasbeen involved with the alternative fuels industry formany years, the one thing that remains constant is theever-increasing cost of gasoline! Who would have thoughtthat $3/gallon would be considered a steal!

This year, more than any other for alternative fuels,has been filled with change and opportunity. I’ve hadthe privilege of chairing the planning efforts of this con-ference with some of the most passionate, knowledge-able people in our industry.

Passion is the driver behind an exciting initiative thatyou’ll be hearing about this week.

There are some truly amazing stories to be told.The Clean Cities Industry Alliance (CCIA) is an

initiative that grew out of conversations with represen-tatives of the alternative fuels industry. The questionthat kept coming up was, “How do we maximize op-portunities for alternative fuel stakeholders, nationally,now that there is record interest, significant incentives,and unlimited opportunity to advance the sale and useof alternative fuels?” The response is a national educa-tion and outreach initiative that covers a wide range oftopics and brings timely, regular expertise to anyonewho cares to participate. It’s a multi-faceted informa-tion approach that ranges from industry relevant web-

casts to daily industry news updates. The CCIA will alsopresent forums in Chicago, Washington, D.C. andLas Vegas over the next 12 months which will offer in-depth, one-day programming on biofuels, policy, andgaseous fuels.

“Education and outreach are critical in building andmaintaining the interest of our cus-tomers,” were the words of JimHarger of Clean Energy when Iasked him why his company is put-ting significant dollars into this. Jimsaid that the umbrella approach ofmaking information available on allfuels, technologies, and vehiclesmakes the market work. The Al-liance also looks forward to a mu-tually beneficial working relation-ship with the new TransportationEnergy Partnership, the executivedirector of which is former De-partment of Energy Deputy Assis-tant Secretary Tom Gross.

The CCIA will be announcedthis week and officially kicks offJune 15. The constancy of changeneeds new ideas and solutions. I’mreminded of the words of one of thegreatest hockey players of all time,Wayne Gretzky. He said, “I skate towhere the puck is going to be, notto where it has been.” A good ideais one where you can always keepyour eye on the puck. That’s whatthe bold, new CCIA partnership isdesigned to do.

Will Kleindienst

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If you flew here and rented a car,or took a taxi downtown, you’re aClean Energy customer.

That’s because you almost cer-tainly rode a compressed naturalgas-fueled shuttle bus from theSky Harbor passenger terminal tothe airport’s brand new, $250 mil-lion rent-a-car center.

Or, your taxi was a CNG taxi,and it fuels at a Clean Energy sta-tion. There are three of them at

Sky Harbor. The newest station supports

62 full size transit bus shuttles,ElDorado vehicles with 8.1-literengines by John Deere.

It’s a public access station,with fully refurbished, electricallydriven Ariel compressors thatwere previously used at a CNGstation in Los Angeles.

Clean Energy pumps the equiv-alent of approximately 10,000 gasoline gallons at its three

Phoenix stations, says local man-ager Rhett Crowninshield. About40% of the volume is at the newrent-a-car station.

Public fueling accounts for ap-proximately 10% to 15% of CleanEnergy’s local CNG fueling.

Crowninshield and colleaguesincluding Clean Energy VP JimHarger conducted tours of the air-port facilities in connection withClean Cities yesterday.

Clean Energy is a major con-ference sponsor.

Will Kleindienst, Clean Cities 2006 conference chairman

You’re Probably a Clean Energy Customer

Fuel Price Prompts New Industry Alliance

Sunday tours of Clean Energy CNG station at Sky Harbor.

Rhett Crowninshield flanked byLindsay Bowers and Mark Riley

Q: What’s the difference between natural-gas infrastructure and hydrogen infrastructure?

A: About10 years.

You can’t skip steps on the road to emission-free, energy-independent vehicles. So, at Honda, we’re

working hard to make sure the transition to hydrogen is as smooth as possible. That’s one reason

we’ve invested so much time and energy into our natural-gas vehicle, the Civic GX. Think of the

GX not only as an innovative, nearly emission-free sedan, but also as a type of ‘‘transition vehicle,’’

one that will make the move to fuel-cell vehicles (like our Honda FCX) easier for both consumers

and manufacturers. Since the refueling procedure and hardware are virtually identical for the Civic

GX and Honda FCX, today’s GX driver makes a perfect ‘‘apprentice’’ for the hydrogen-powered

vehicles of tomorrow. And, when the time comes, GX drivers familiar with PHILL, our home

refueling station, will be able to easily make the switch to a similar device used to produce and

compress hydrogen gas for at-home FCX refueling. There’s also good news for natural-gas producers

and retailers: The same pipelines that supply gas to CNG stations and residential consumers today

will deliver gas to hydrogen reformers (both commercial and residential) tomorrow. At the same

time, CNG stations can be converted to compress, store and deliver hydrogen for refueling. Honda’s

desire is to create forward-thinking vehicles and refueling solutions that help reduce our reliance on

oil, imported or otherwise. Together with an industry committed to investment in the technologies

of the future, we may just be able to turn ten years into nine.

FCX not currently available to the public. PHILL will be available in California in limited quantities. ©2005 American Honda Motor Co., Inc. honda.com

Automaker Alliance ReadiesNew Alt Fuels Advertising Blitz

Fleet Biodiesel Helps Fleets

Endress+HauserSwitzerland's Endress+Hauseris premiering an “extremelycompact” coriolis gas flow-meter designed specifically forCNG dispensers. The unit'ssmall size and flexible datatransmission electronics allowit to be incorporated in any dis-penser design, while “excellentmeasurement accuracy and repeatability guarantee accuratebilling” of CNG fueling, E+H says. Michael Schukerheads OEM sales efforts. The company is at Booth 825.

TexCom Taps Lurgi for BiodieselTexas-based TexCom, Inc. said Friday that it’s awarded apreliminary contract to Lurgi PSI for design of a 35 mil-lion gallon per year biodiesel plant at the LBC bulk liquidsterminal in Seabrook, Texas. “This facility is the first of sev-eral Biodiesel production sites that TexCom currently plansto build and operate in the south central United States,” Tex-Com says. Plans include a 15-year lease to storage and re-lated facilities. There will be access to barge, truck and railtransportation. Lurgi PSI is based in Memphis.

Toyota Hybrids for Fleets — Next YearStepped up production of hybrids and the late-2006 start ofCamry Hybrid production in the U.S. should allow Toyotato boost this year’s “paltry” allocation for fleets, says one of

the Japanese automaker’sfleet marketing specialists.“We’re going to go fromfamine to feast,” says Toy-ota Motor Sales USA fleet

field manager Tom Voll. “We’re very bullish on calendaryear 2007,” he says. “We’ll be able to meet whatever pre-sented demand is,” — with the exception of car rental fleets,where margins are too low. Toyota (Booth 808) says that theCamry Hybrid, the first of which (manufactured in Japan)will reach dealers this month, will have a base MSRP of$25,900. Mileage is said to be 39 mpg and the vehicle willbe certified as an AT-PZEV (advanced technology partialzero emission vehicle) in California.

Who Killed the Electric Car?We’ll all have a chance to be the judge when the murder-mystery docudrama premiers June 28 in New York andLos Angeles, July 7 in Chicago and San Francisco, and acrossthe country through August. Reviews from the Tribeca FilmFestival last week, Sundance Film Festival earlier this yearand a few special screenings in between indicate the filmcaptures the unique emotional bond that drivers developedwith their leased General Motors EV1 electric cars. And thefilm blames multiple suspects—carmakers, oil companies,consumers and government—for its demise.

S N A P S H O T SS N A P S H O T S

While we gather here at Clean Citiesfor, arguably, the biggest and most com-prehensive alternative fuel vehicle showin the country, the Alliance of Auto-mobile Manufacturers is launching amulti-million dollar national ad cam-paign touting its members’ commit-ment to alternative fuels.

Targeting Congress and the generalpublic, the campaign is clearly designedto tap into public concern over risinggas prices and foreign oil dependence,while deflecting criticism of the indus-try’s continued production of gas-guz-zlers. Alliance members include BMW,DaimlerChrysler, Ford, General Mo-tors, and Toyota.

The campaign includes ads and a website, www.discoveralternatives.com,which says 41 different alternative fuelvehicle models are on sale in the U.S.today, with 35 coming soon. It saysmanufacturers are committed to mak-ing one million more alt fuel vehiclesthis year.

The site identifies types of alterna-tive fuels—hybrids, diesels/biodiesels,E85, electric, natural gas—and lists themake and model by manufacturer, in-cluding two GM natural gas models,the Chevrolet Silverado 2500 HD andGMC Sierra 2500 HD, which are ex-pected to be discontinued.

Honda’s Civic GX is not listed, sinceHonda is not a member of the Alliance.

The site also lists numbers of alt-fuelvehicles on the road in each state. Herein Arizona, the number is 145,438,comprised of 73,395 diesel, 66,406 flex-

fuel and 5,637hybrid models. There’sno mention of electrics despite the sig-nificant presence of DaimlerChryslerGEMs in Arizona retairement com-munities.

“It’s fine that the automakers are pro-moting alternative fuels,” commentsRich Kolodziej of NGVAmerica, theformer Natural Gas Vehicle Coalition.“But hybrid vehicles and ethanol vehi-cles are just extenders,” he told Show-Times yesterday.

“The automakers really need to focuson vehicles that don’t run on gasolineat all,” Kolodziej says. We hope thatwith increased public awareness and de-mand, that they’ll start making thosevehicles again.”

Fleet Biodiesel, a new San Diego con-sulting firm, is here at Booth 424 in-troducing their services to helpcommercial and municipal fleets con-vert to biodiesel.

The firm assesses fleet conversionfeasibility and develops helps opera-tors develop clean fuel implementa-tion strategies.

Fleet Biodiesel is currently workingwith the city of Chula Vista, Calif. andmining for new clients; founder, KenSnoke, Steve Wallace, president and

CEO, and Mel O’Keefe, sales man-ager, are all here.

“We look at theirs scenarios andhelp identify the best approach forswitching to biodiesel.

“We help them plan for the future,”Snoke says.

They acknowledge that biodieselfaces supply limitations, but note thatsince many fleets have already shiftedto compressed natural gas, there’s anopportunity for them to incorporatebiodiesel into their remaining vehicles.

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Texas-based Emission Solutions, Inc. is empha-sizing a converted diesel engine it calls, very ap-propriately for this year’s Clean Cities conclave,the Phoenix, specifically the Phoenix 7.6L.

The engine is based on the popular, 7.6-liter In-ternational/Navistar DT 466 diesel engine. Be-cause it employs the same engine block, thespark-ignition variant can be installed in existingvehicles using the same transmission and enginemounts, resulting in a clean fuel vehicle at a frac-tion of the cost of a new one.

The Phoenix NG 7.6L, which runs on naturalgas, has California Air Resources Board certifi-cation, allowing it to be used in fleet vehicles evenin the most stringently regulated areas.

ESI is busy lining up dealers now. “We’re goingto be working through the International dealerorganization,” says company president Jim Moore.

Also on hand at Clean Cities this week (Booth613) is VP Jim Cole.

Because the Phoenix NG 7.6L engine is certi-fied for 0.8 grams of NOx per brake horsepower-hour, well below the mandated 1.2-gram level,operators using the converted engine are eligiblefor California’s Carl Moyer program grants.

ESI also has new federal support to convert en-gines from Hino and India’s Ashok Leyland andTata from diesel to propane/LPG operation.

The target is Euro 3 emission levels, whichMoore says he expects to meet without a tur-bocharger and perhaps even without a catalytic

converter. “Price is going to be paramount,” he says, if con-

verted engines are to be re-sold in Pakistan,India and other fast-growing natural gas vehiclemarkets. There, the firm will use the strategy it’susing here: provide a clean fuel spark engine thatwill fit in a vehicle in which a conventional dieselengine was used before.

Funding of $185,000 for the propane conver-sion work has been secured from the National En-ergy Technology Laboratory (NETL) inMorgantown, W.Va. ESI plans to invest its ownmoney to devise natural gas conversions of theAsian engines, Moore says.

ESI’s Phoenix engine on display in Phoenix.

Bauer Compressors (Booth 622) draws on deepexperience in a variety of industries to supplycompressors and ancillary equipment for natu-ral gas vehicle fueling. Bauer compressors areavailable with capacities of five to 161 stan-dard cubic feet per minute and working pres-sures up to 5,000 psi. Power requirementsrange from five to 125 horsepower.

Bauer manufactures products used by allbranches of the U.S. military, civilian and fed-eral law enforcement agencies and firefight-ing departments for breathing air, less lethalweapons, paintball and other uses, advises saleschief Patrick Smith

“Our diverse product line and expert knowl-edge make Bauer the best source for high pres-sure compressors and accessories such aspurification systems, storage, and fill stations,”he told ShowTimes.

Bauer products are available as individualcomponents or as packaged systems.

The company has supplied fueling hardwarefor shuttle buses at such well known destina-tions as the Hearst Castle in California and Colo-nial Williamsburg in Virginia.

Other customers include Nippon Air Cargo atKennedy airpor t in New York and ChicagoO’Hare, and British Airways at JFK, as a well asSnapple Beverages and Manhattan Beer in NewYork City and Long Island.

No, it’s not the pool at the Wyndham. But Bauersupplied the fueling hardware for CNG shuttlebuses at the Hearst Castle in California.

Bauer Compressors Boasts a Deep Pedigree

ESI for Easy, Effective Retrofits

American Honda comes to Clean Cities as theonly U.S. automaker to offer a natural gas- fueled passenger car: the (made in Ohio) dedi-cated-CNG Honda Civic GX, re-styled for 2006.

Honda (Booth 200) maintains that natural gasis a key step on the road to hydrogen (the firm’sgot a fuel cell car here too), and says that everyCivic GX buyer is a “hydrogen apprentice.”

The 2006 Civic GX is a five-passenger vehi-cle whereas the 2005 was designed for four. High-way mileage is now 39 mpg, up from 34 mpg,although city mileage has dropped from 30 mpgto 28 mpg.

Honda uses a Type 3 (aluminum lined, fullyfiber-wrapped) CNG cylinder from StructuralComposites Industries (Booth 627).

Further helping breed familiarity with gaseousfuels is the Phill home fueling device from Fu-elMaker, a Canadian company in which Hondaholds an equity stake. Phill allows drivers of theCivic GX and other NGVs to fuel their cars athome, overnight.

The device is available in California, as well asin an expanding list of states and towns includ-ing Arizona, Illinois, New Jersey, New Yorkand Utah, and Dallas and Denver. FuelMakersigned a distribution deal with Gaz de France latelast year for a European version of Phill, and istargeting Germany and Italy as well.

FuelMaker is at Booth 715.Honda sold about 800 Civic GX cars in 2005,

about a third of them to retail customers, mostlyin California, says manager Gunnar Lindstrom.

Recent rate adjustments on the part of utili-ties including Pacific Gas & Electric and South-ern California Edison have markedly lowered thecost of fuel to the consumer, bringing it wellbelow that of gasoline.

“We are looking at using that [California] ex-perience to expand to selected areas nationwidein 2006,” he told ShowTimes.

Honda and FuelMaker offer attractive leaseplans for Phill through Honda dealers.

Honda’s Gunnar Lindstrom with the dedicated-CNG Civic GX that’s to be unveiled here this morning.

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Washington StateMandates BiofuelsWashington became the firststate to require biofuels as De-mocratic Gov. Chris Gregoireon March 30 signed a bill call-ing for 2% biodiesel and 2%ethanol, effective December2008. “We are moving Wash-ington forward as a leader of a dynamic, 21st century in-dustry,” Gregoire said. “Alternative fuels will help bridgethe rural and urban divide in Washington: we can grow thesecrops in eastern Washington, crush the seeds in places likeMoses Lake [in east-central Washington, where she signedthe legislation] and ship them across the Cascades for use inbuses in Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia.”

Kansas City Gets First B20 StationUnited Beverage Company, a downtown Kansas City dis-tributor for Anheuser-Busch, now fuels its fleet of 22 dieseldelivery trucks with a blend of 20% biodiesel. Thus, “Thenext Kansas City resident to pop open a Budweiser may bedrinking a beverage delivered on a truck fueled by cleaner-burning biodiesel,” says the National Biodiesel Board. Theretailer is Maher Oil, the biodiesel blending stock supplieris West Central Soy.

Street Sweepers from Waco’s TymcoWaco, Texas-based Tymco International is promoting itsModel 600 natural gas- and propane-fueled cab-over streetsweepers. Tymco claims a fuel tank arrangement that allowsfor a short wheelbase and thus the “tightest turning radiuspossible” for enhanced maneuverability. Both CNG andpropane Tymco sweepers use Freightliner FC-80 chassisand 5.9 liter engines from Cummins Westport Inc. The 195-

horsepower B Gas Plusin the Model 600CNG sweeper is said tomeet U.S. EPA stan-dards for 2010. TomRokas is on hand forTymco at Booth 528.

RMFMA’s Colorado AnnualThe Rocky Mountain Fleet Management Association is pro-moting its annual meeting, with conference and tradeshow slated for October 17-20 in Westminster, Colo. GaylePatterson of Cherry Creek Schools is conference chair.Change is in the Air is the 2006 conference theme. RMFMA(Booth 523) has a new executive director, as Karen Blood-worth took over on March 1. The organization, estab-lished in 1976, has chapters in Colorado, Arizona, NewMexico, Nevada and Utah, and is planning to hold its 2007annual meeting here in Scottsdale.

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Daimler has sold approximately 10,000diesel-fueled Jeep Liberty vehicles —“double the number expected whenChrysler Group first launched thediesel model in early 2005,” says theNational Biodiesel Board.

Daimler talked up the tally at thePeter Cremer North America bio-diesel refinery in Cincinnati in March.The plant supplies biodiesel for a fac-tory fill of the Jeep Liberty, every oneof which leaves the Toledo, Ohio fac-tory fueled with B5.

Peter Cremer was the first biodieselproducer in the U.S. to achieve BQ-9000 accreditation, NBB says. NBBalso welcomes Daimler’s decision to

approve B20 in Dodge Ram pickuptrucks for fleet customers effective withthe 2007 model year.

Daimler is the first U.S. automakerto specifically approve of B20 in a war-ranty position statement, NBB says.The firm wants more stringent stan-dards, however, before giving its bless-ing to B20 for consumer use.

NBB cites DoE figures indicatingthat biodiesel is America’s fastest grow-ing alternative fuel. More than 600 re-tail filling stations sell it, and 1,500petroleum distributors carry it.

More than 600 major fleets now usebiodiesel.

DaimlerChrysler is at Booth 800.

Diesel Jeeps Exceed ExpectationsJeep Liberty diesels come with a factory fill of B5 biodiesel.

Weststart-Calstart is promoting Cal-STEP, the new California SecureTransportation Partnership, arguingthat California is poised now to takesteps resulting in immediate mean-ingful displacement of imported oil.

CalSTEP was kicked off in Decem-ber with the backing of former Secre-tary of State George Schultz andformer CIA chief James Woolsey.

Short-term steps include an imme-diate increase in the blending of re-newable fuels, with heightenedinvestment in transportation energysecurity.

“The state is considering a massivenew investment to improve roads, in-frastructure, and goods movement,CalSTEP says. “Those funds shouldbe used to reward smart growth poli-

cies that provide more livable com-munities and promote transit. Thestate needs more energy- efficientcommunity design.

“The state should find ways to en-sure that increased goods movementdoes not increase air pollution or de-pendence on foreign oil.”

CalSTEP goals include reducingoverall on-road petroleum fuel con-sumption in California to at least 15%below 2003 levels by 2020, “while in-creasing the proportion of alternativetransportation fuels in the state to atleast 20% of total on-road transporta-tion fuel demand.”

Calstart president John Boesel ismoderating a Fueling the Momentumsession on hybrid vehicles at 1:30today in Prescott 6.

WestStart-Calstart Talks Up CalSTEP Secure Transport Energy Partnership

Natural gas vehicle fueling leader Clean EnergyFuels weighs into Clean Cities 2006 as an evenlarger provider of NGV fuel, continuing to buildCNG fueling stations at a rapid clip and acquiring,from Applied LNG Technologies, new capacity formaking and moving LNG.

The Seal Beach, Calif.-based company fuels morethan 30,000 NGVs every day in North America, at

some 165 stations. Refuse,transit, shuttle, taxi, police,intra-state and interstate truck-ing, airport and municipalfleets are all Clean Energy cus-tomers.

The company providesLNG for buse s here inPhoenix, and CNG for taxisand shuttle buses at the airport.

It supplies fuel for CNG trash trucks in Los An-geles and hopes to do the same in Phoenix. Thecompany is hoping for additional CNG bus busi-ness here too.

Recent new installations in California include fu-eling stations for Foothill Transit in Irwindale andfor the City of Santa Clarita. An 80,000 gallon perday LNG plant is planned for California, adding to

the 100,000 gallon unit justbought from Applied LNGTechnologies. A brand newLNG tanker is on display here.

The company early this yearestablished Clean Energy Fi-nance, which helps arrangefunding of CNG fueling instal-lations, and will also buy vehi-cles that are leased back to

operators—a device that’s particularly effective formunicipalities who are otherwise unable to take ad-vantage of new tax breaks for alt fuels.

“Our new finance unit will help customers getall the assistance they need to develop their natu-ral gas vehicle fleets,” says Clean Energy presidentand CEO Andrew Littlefair.

Programs “are individually configured to takeadvantage of grants, tax rebates and new federalclean-air financial incentives.” Peter Grace is theClean Energy VP heading the new finance unit.

Besides heading Clean Energy, Littlefair is thechairman of NGVAmerica, the former Natural GasVehicle Coalition.

Clean Energy was founded by oil magnate BoonePickens, who acts as chairman emeritus.

In February Clean Energy paid approximately$100,000 for newspaper advertisements taken byNGVAmerica in an effort to remind President Bushthat alternative transportation fuel is available todayin the form of natural gas, and NGVs. The Presi-

Clean Energy brought this brand-newLNG tanker trailer here to Clean Cities,straight from maker Alloy Custom Prod-ucts’ Indiana plant. It’s one of 12 newtanker trailers that the natural gasfuel provider is adding to its45-vehicle delivery fleet, whichservices California, Texas andArizona. With the truck hereare Brian Powers (right) andVP Jim Harger.

Clean Energy Fuels Carries the NGV Torch

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dent should “encourage alternative energy thatis here and working now, including natural gasfor transportation,” NGVAmerica said.

“If we are to meet your goal of reducing ouroil imports by 2025, America can’t wait. Weneed to start displacing foreign oil today.”

“If natural gas displaced only 10% of thepetroleum used in heavy-duty vehicles, Amer-ica would save more than 100 million barrels ofoil a year, while increasing natural gas use byless than 3%,” said NGVAmerica president RichKolodziej.

The product line may appear prosaic, but actu-ally it’s critical: Ohio’s OPW Fueling Compo-nents provides the connectors that are key to bothgaseous and liquid fuels, and promises a “one-stopshop” for conventional and alternative fueling in-stallations.

The company has morethan 100 years’ experiencein the supply of pipes(OPW was established in1892 in Cincinnati as theOhio Pattern Works) andfittings to the oil industry,and sees increasing poten-tial in alternative fuels.

Products include tubing, couplers, hoses and noz-zles used in both fueling stations and vehicles.

OPW is associated with the Sherex tradename,dating from an OPW-Sherex joint venture (1993)and subsequent acquisition of Sherex (1998).

OPW is phasing out theSherex handle, marketingits alt fuel products underits CleanEnergy trade-name.

Its North Americanbase notwithstanding,most of the growth inOPW’s NGV compo-nents business is overseas.

“For us, approximately50% is overseas with Indiamaking huge investmentsinto this technology oflate,” says OPW alternative fuels product spe-cialist Les Rogers.

He points to “surging” NGV business in SouthAmerica, China, Pakistan, Thailand and thePhilippines too, and says OPW has appointednew reps to capitalize on international opportu-nities. The firm displayed at the Asia Pacific Nat-ural Gas Vehicles Association’s meeting this pastJuly in Malaysia, and was at the ENGVA annualmeeting in Brussels last month (see page 12).

Besides its NGV and NGV fueling hardware,OPW is looking ahead to hydrogen (developing hy-drogen-capable nozzles, for example), and has a newline of UL-approved ethanol-compatible CleanEn-ergy products, featuring nickel-lined metal parts andspecial elastomeric materials to resist ethanol cor-rosion.

Ethanol fuel dispensing nozzles are marketedunder OPW’s E11 tradename.

The company has its sights set on biodiesel too,but less aggressively. Like automakers that want toembrace biodiesel, OPW is concerned about a lackof standards and fuel (and hence component) dete-rioration issues that are insufficiently understood.

Les Rogers

Les RogersAlternative Fuel Product SpecialistOPW Fueling Components (Booth 726)

OPW CleanEnergy graphic shows three dozen key products, ranging from un-derground tank components to vehicle fueling nozzles, that the Ohio-basedfirm supplies for E85 (and even E100) ethanol fueling installations.

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OPW Supplies Clean Vehicle Vitals

“We turn pollution into energy,” says Wash-ington State’s Prometheus Energy. The com-pany is talking up renewable sources ofnatural gas like landfills and cattle lots formaking LNG that can be used as vehicle fuel.

There are currently 2,200 active municipalsolid waste landfills across the U.S., the firmsays, and their collective emissions ofmethane, a potent greenhouse gas, accountfor more than a third of total methane emis-sions in the country, “making landfills the sin-gle largest human-related source of methane.”

Prometheus is also promoting anaerobicdigesters as biogas recovery systems, to helplivestock producers “minimize the environ-mental impacts associated with managementof animal waste while also providing an ad-ditional revenue stream.”

Prometheus currently has five active proj-ects and says it expects to have capacity forsome 55,000 gallons of LNG per day by year-end. The company is at Booth 829.

Prometheus EmphasizesRenewable LNG Sources

Surf over to the GMAbility section of the Gen-eral Motors website these days and you won’t seemuch about hydrogen. The fuel cell informationis still there, but prominent today are vehiclesthat can run on E85/ethanol and the automaker’scampaign to introduce so-called mild hybrids,which save fuel but are more affordable than thehybrid vehicles currently on the market.

“The intent is to focus on the here and nowand what is available,” says GM alt fuel generalmanager John Gaydash.

GM has launched a campaign called LiveGreen, Go Yellow, encouraging the use of corn-derived ethanol.

The company continued its nationwide mass-market support of the alcohol last month by do-nating an E85-capable Chevy Tahoe to the Stateof Michigan and launching a collaborative pro-gram there with propane and ethanol fueling dis-penser provider CleanFUEL USA and the retailchain Meijer.

The partners pledged to identify sites for ap-proximately 20 new ethanol dispensing sites inLansing, Grand Rapids, Warren, Pontiac, De-

troit, Rochester, and Brighton over the next fewmonths.

“Using ethanol for renewable energy helps ourcountry meet our future energy needs,” saidMichigan Governor Jennifer Granholm.

GM’s deal with ethanol equipment providerslike CleanFUEL and retailers like Meijer is thatit will continue to promote ethanol and E85-capable vehicles as they help develop an ethanolinfrastructure. Part of the plan is to make surethat drivers of some 1.5 million E85-capable GMvehicles know that they can use the cleaner fuel.

GM says it expects to deliver more than400,000 E85-capable vehicles in 2006.

CleanFUEL USA is at Booth 425 here.GM has five vehicles at Booth 500 (the largest

at Clean Cities 2006): an Impala sedan, anAvalanche cab pickup and a Tahoe SUV, whichare all E85-capable; and its new Saturn VueGreen Line SUV and 2-mode hybrids, the lat-ter shown in a Chevy Tahoe.

The model year 2007 Saturn Vue hybrid is ex-pected to deliver an EPA estimated 27 mpg inthe city and 32 mpg on the highway—approxi-mately 20% improved fuel economy over 4-cylinder models—at a significantly lower costthan other hybrids. The Vue hybrid is expectedto cost less than $23,000 when goes on sale thissummer. It will employ 36-volt nickel metal hy-dride batteries from Michigan’s Cobasys.

Cobasys will supply a “plug and play” 36-voltNiMHax brand system including Series 1000NiMH battery modules and electronics in a com-pact, lightweight package designed specificallyfor the GM application. The packs will be builtat the Cobasys plant in Springboro, Ohio.

E85 Tahoe SUV that was given to State of Michigan

GM Goes with the Tried and the Economical

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Biogas — or biomethane — is finding serious ap-plication in nearly half a dozen European coun-tries and may emerge as the natural gas vehicle’sroute to mass market respectability. It’s not a fos-sil fuel, and has significant efficiency advan-tages over liquid fuels made from crops or waste.

Like natural gas, biomethane boasts the low-est emissions of all alternative fuels but is carbonneutral: CO2 emissions from biomethane vehi-cles are comprised of atoms that, in the form ofthe more potent greenhouse gas methane, wouldhave been emitted to the atmosphere anyway.

Biomethane and its great potential was ar-guably the hottest topic at the 12th annual meet-ing of the European Natural Gas VehicleAssociation, held late last month in Brussels.

Gaseous fuels present efficiency advantagesthat are well worth the added one-time cost ofthe NGVs themselves, argues Peter Boisen, theformer Volvo executive who now serves asENGVA chairman.

Boisen pointed out that crude oil prices haverisen by 300% in four years, and that “pain causedby increased crude oil prices supports a shift tonatural gas.” Boisen is strongly in favor of a pro-posal in Sweden for a plant to make biomethane

from wood waste, building on tech-nologies that have been shown at thepilot scale to be 65% efficient interms of energy yield. Most biofuelplants target liquid fuel that works inconventional vehicles, but produc-tion has yet to reach 50% efficiency,Boisen maintains. What’s more, de-signs of such facilities often includemethane as part of the process.

“They talk about a methane streamgoing into the refinery! It’s crazy,”Boisen said in Brussels. “Methaneshould be coming out.”

Ultimately, he said, efficiency advantages ofgaseous fuels will be recognized. “Conservativeforces protecting the status quo of conventionalfuels are fighting a losing battle,” he said.

“The paradigm shift from liquid to gaseousfuels will create enormous new business oppor-tunities—initially mainly for methane-poweredvehicles, but eventually also for hydrogen fuelcell vehicles.

“Europe, considering climate, natural re-sources, and available know-how, has an excel-lent opportunity to take a leadership role,” Boisen

said. “Instead of looking down at natural gas asyet another fossil fuel, we should be very grate-ful for the role this gas can play in the gradualtransition from fossil to renewable fuels.”

The ENGVA annual conference included pre-sentations on biogas progress in France, Sweden(the clear leader) and Switzerland, including anew, multi-national, EC-backed effort dubbedBiogasmix.

Estimates for biomethane’s market potentialranged as high as 40% of all European trans-portation fuels.

Christopher Maltin of Organic Powerclaimed an ENGVA 2006 distinction,claiming on the first day of the showto be the only to have driven therenot just in an NGV, but a biogas-fu-eled vehicle, from England.

Maltin said he’s been in cleanfuels for 37 years, starting when un-leaded gasoline was an alterna-tive. Organic Power specializes inthe production of biomethane from

food waste, as Maltin maintains thatas much as half of all the food pro-duced is currently thrown away.What’s more, he says, the humanbody is a terribly inefficient producerof energy from food, meaning thatthe waste figure is closer to a stag-gering 85% if sewage is included inthe total.

Current EC inaction on biogas, hesaid, is “a disgrace.”

Christopher Maltin says waste is the way to sustainable driving.

The Only One to Drive There on Biogas

Gaseous fuels have real emissionsadvantages and an economicedge that’s emerging even in the

U.S. But making the case forthem may come down to mar-keting: ‘biofuels’ means ethanolor biodiesel to most people whilehybrids and hydrogen have thehigh-tech high ground.

ENGVA held a session titledSharpening the Image of NGVs. A

Belgian advertsing man de-scribed a utility’s unconventionalcampaign to encourage energy

savings, and former ShellHydrogen communicationschief Chris de Koning talkedabout his four year experi-ence with hydrogen—suc-cessful, but prone to crashperhaps as years pass with noviable product. Italy’s Fiat,

which enjoys by far the largestEuropean market for NGVs, willadd a fourth model this year,the diminutive Panda, and hasmounted a whimsical ad cam-paign described by Federica Lac-cino as based on “the pacifistmovement in the 60s.”

It May All Boil DownTo a Question of Marketing

Europeans Are Already Serious About Biogas

There in Brussels, Here in PhoenixUpwards of half a dozen firms displayed at both the European

Natural Gas Vehicle Association meeting in Brussels, and are

likewise in Phoenix: Cummins Westport, Endress+Hauser, Fuel-

Maker, Krohne, Lincoln Composites, OPW and SCI (Harsco).

ENGVA executive director Jeff Seisler (left), chairman Peter Boisen

Natural Power: Fiat opts for ’60s look.

President Bush may acknowledge America’s ad-diction to oil, but that’s a far cry from orderingmunicipal and private fleets to buy alternativefuel vehicles. Now that a federal judge has ruledthat the Department of Energy must take an-other look at doing so, effectively giving theagency two years to go through a four-barrelrulemaking process, the opinion of most alt fuelis advocates is: Don’t Expect an Order from thePresident.

That’s because the complexity of the 1992 lawDoE is violating gives the agency lots of wrig-gle room to justify not requiring alt fuel vehiclesfor city and private fleets.

Federal District Court Judge William Alsup

ruled in San Francisco in early March that DoEis in violation of the 1992 National Energy Pol-icy Act (EPAct, or NEPA).

Congress following the Gulf War saw fleets asthe way to seed an alternative fuel market to weanthe U.S. from foreign oil, and the first PresidentBush agreed, signing the law requiring a phase-in of alt fuel vehicles.

Federal, state, and fuel provider fleet rules werepromulgated, but DoE declined to follow EPAct’s

call to mandate AFVs for municipal andprivate fleets. The agency was sued by theCenter for Biological Diversity and theBluewater Network (Friends of the Earth).They prevailed in 2002, and DoE wentthrough a rulemaking exercise after whichit deemed EPAct goals, including 30% dis-placement of transportation fuel importsby 2010, to be “aggressive aspirational pe-troleum reduction targets” (our italics) andnot realistically achievable.

The environmental groups maintainedthe legal pressure, and have prevailed

again, at least at the federal district court level.

Judge Alsup ruled March 6 that because DoEfailed to set a new, “realistic” goal and then de-termine whether a regulation could meet it, the1992 EPAct law was violated.

DoE “refused to revise [the goal],” Judge Alsupruled, “even while acknowledging that the goalwas unachievable. This was fatal error.”

Pursuant to the Alsup decision, DoE asked fornearly four years to go through a new EPAct rule-making. Judge Alsup granted two years: sixmonths to propose a new goal, and six monthsmore to finalize it. The public will be invited tocomment. The agency then has another sixmonths to propose and six months to finalize arule to meet the goal, or to determine that a rulewon’t help. There will be more public comment.

“DoE has an opportunity,” said Rich Kolodziejof NGVAmerica. “If they seize the opportunityto establish an aggressive goal and implementprograms that would actually result in a greatermarket pull for NGVs, then the court actionmight really mean something.

“Otherwise it will be business as usual and theywill owe the electorate an explanation.”

Will the present president do as his Dad?

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issued anexecutive order late last month pushing for in-creased in-state production of biofuels.

Following up on a report by a 10-agency Bioen-ergy Interagency Working Group calling for con-sumption of at least 2 billion gallons of biofuels inCalifornia by 2020, the Schwarzenegger order callsfor the state to produce a minimum of 20% of itsbiofuels by 2010, 40% by 2020, and 75% by 2050.

The order mentions replacement of imported oilfor transportation as the first priority. It emphasizesethanol, and mentions biodiesel, but omits bio-gas/biomethane.

That could change as organizations like Calstartpush to bring Swedish-type biogas expertise to theU.S., and as the California Energy Commissiongears up for new biofuels work. “There is a tremen-dous opportunity to learn from the Europeans,”says Calstart president John Boesel.

“We’re very interested and very pro-bio-methane,” says CEC commissioner Jim Boyd. Heis chairman of the 10-agency group, and a keynotespeaker here this morning.

EPAct-NEPA Back to DoE: Agency Has Two Years

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Biomethane Not in Biofuels Order

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Trillium Expands NYC Transit WorkTrillium USA said last month thatit’s won additional work for NewYork City Transit, and has sinceMarch 1 been handling CNG op-erations at the MTA College PointDepot in Queens, which supports 245 buses. The station isto be upgraded with a new 1,250-scfm compressor packageand new dispensers. Fleets & Fuels, April 10

Trillum affiliate Pinnacle CNG is at Booth 714

They’ll Probably Actually Be BlackMichelin said at the Geneva Auto Show that it’s “commit-ting itself to tires with lower rolling resistance” and wouldlike to see introduction of a formal system of energy effi-ciency ratings to stimulate the market. The tiremaker sayseasy rolling “green” tires have a tremendous potential tosave energy, as much as 20% in a car.

Fleets & Fuels, April 10

Intrepid Details Biogas ExpansionIdaho Falls-based Intrepid Technology and Resources saidit’s embarked on a five-fold expansion of its Whitesides bio-gas plant near Rupert, Idaho. The firm has ordered eightnew digester tanks and has begun excavation work. The goalis annualized gas production of up to 95,000 mcf annually,“a quantity sufficient to heat 1,000 homes in the Boise, Idahoarea.” Intrepid works to make renewable “green gas” avail-able via conventional pipelines. Fleets & Fuels, April 24

Hydrogen from JP8 by UnitelIllinois’ Unitel Technologies said it’s built a fully automatedcomputer-controlled pilot plant for making fuel cell hy-drogen from JP8 jet fuel. An Army Fuel Cell TechnologyTeam, Unitel says, will use the Unitel system to fine tunethe process for converting a logistical fuel into hydrogen tooperate a solid oxide fuel cell stack to generate “quiet power”on the battlefield. Fleets & Fuels, April 24

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Autocar has unveiled a Class 8 refusetruck with series hydraulic hybriddrive. The E3 is expected to pare fueluse by up to 50% and yield signifi-cant brake replacement savings. De-liveries are to commence in fall 2007.

Because it is a series hybrid, with allmotive power coming from the hy-draulic drivetrain (the conventionaltransmission is eliminated), the E3 issaid to be no heavier than a conven-tional truck.

Indiana-based Autocar’s principalE3 partner is Parker Hannifin (Booth826), which is providing a hydraulicdrive dubbed RunWise. Braking en-ergy is stored in a pressure vessel calledan accumulator (the outer vessel is sup-plied to Parker by Lincoln Compos-ites; Booth 821), from which power isreleased when needed.

“Cost premium has not been deter-

mined,” says Autocar sales VP TomVatter. “The return on investment tar-get is 24 to 36 months.”

The prototype E3 has an 8.3-liter,6-cylinder Cummins ISC engine, thesmallest available in Autocar’s non-hy-brid Xpeditor line. “By production,there will be a smaller engine in it foradditional environmental, efficiency,economical advantages,” he says.

Autocar, which was spun off fromVolvo when Volvo bought MackTrucks in late 2000, claims to be thelargest provider of compressed and liq-uefied natural gas refuse trucks inNorth America, producing between100 and 160 trucks per year and pio-neering the L Gas Plus engine.

“We are in discussions with a cus-tomer in California that will have anatural gas-powered E3,” Vatter says.

Fleets & Fuels, April 10, 2006

Autocar’s Series Hydraulic HybridParker’s series design said to allow hydraulic hybrid drive with no weight penalty.

Long Island’s Odyne Corp is pro-moting plug-in series hybrid electrictrucks and buses.

The plug-in feature adds range andcuts fuel use, but perhaps more im-portantly allows low-cost lead acid-batteries to be conditioned overnight,greatly extending their useful life.

Given production volumes of just100 or 200 units, the vehicles can payfor themselves in as little as 21 months,without subsidies, at today’s fuel prices,says CEO Roger Slotkin.

The company uses off-the-shelf mo-tors and batteries, and applies propri-etary knowhow gleaned from years ofbattery management experience to the

vehicles’ chargers and controls. Slotkin’s goal is to start with exist-

ing vehicle retrofits and new vehicleupfits, and within a year become anOEM offering, joining the array of en-gine and transmission options offeredto heavy vehicle buyers today.

Odyne’s “fuel agnostic approach,”the company says, can work with gaso-line, diesel, biodiesel, propane, andcompressed or liquefied natural gas.

A vehicle using an Autocar WXLLchassis and fueled by CNG is to betested in Fresno, Calif. and a 33-footThor-ElDorado bus with a 2.2-literVW diesel engine will be tested onLong Island. Fleets & Fuels, Feb. 27

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MONDAY, MAY 8, 2006CONFERENCE AGENDA7:00 AM – 8:00 AM CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST — Lobby One

8:00 AM – 9:45 AM GENERAL SESSION — Hall A

Welcome — Will Kleindienst, Conference ChairmanA Word from Our Sponsors — General Motors and American HondaThe Road Ahead — Annalloyd Thomason, Executive Director, AFVIPhoenix Leading the Way — Phil Gordon, Mayor of PhoenixAn Energy Vision for the U.S. — John McCain, U.S. Senator, ArizonaCalifornia Leading the Way — James D. Boyd, Commissioner,

California Energy CommissionPeak Oil - And Then What? — Dr. Robert Hirsch, Senior Program Advisor,

Science Applications International Corporation

9:45 AM – 10:30 AM BREAK — Lobby One

10:30 AM – NOON CONCURRENT SESSIONS

1. News You Can Use: Journalists Provide an Alternative FuelsReality Check — Flagstaff 1

Journalists who cover the oil industry, alternative fuels, the environment,and the auto industry have an interesting third-party perspective to offer.How do they perceive the alternative fuels industry? What is the publicopinion of alternative fuels? What will it take to make the “alternative” thenorm? This distinguished panel of journalists will examine the economicand political realities that are likely to influence the year ahead.

2. States Of Grace: State and Regional Leadership TowardEnergy Independence — Flagstaff 4

Absent a national push to curb American consumption of petroleum, one byone, many states have risen to the occasion and developed their own poli-cy solutions to this growing problem. Motivated by cost savings, economicdevelopment, and clean air, representatives share their approaches tostemming the growth of petroleum use.

3. The Big Payoff: Innovations that May Transform the AlternativeFuels Market — Prescott 6

Are plug-in hybrids a possibility in the near-term? What are the near-termbreakthroughs that can make fuel cells competitive? Every day in universi-ties, small businesses, government laboratories, and national think tanks,discoveries are being made that could transform the marketplace. Expertsgive insights into some research findings that could forecast tomorrow'stransportation solutions.

4. Salvation or Distraction: If Hydrogen is the Answer,What is the Question? — Prescott 8

Hydrogen was discovered in 1766. Fuel cells were invented in 1838. Theterm “hydrogen economy” was first mentioned as far back as 1923. Fuelcells running on hydrogen may be the engines of the future, but what’s tak-ing so long? Experts discuss what steps must be taken to find the perfectconvergence of environmentally clean, processed hydrogen and efficientfuel cells that will let us enter the new age of the hydrogen economy.

NOON – 1:30 PM AMERICAN HONDA’S THE POWER OF DREAMSCOORDINATOR AWARDS LUNCHEON — Hall A

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM CONCURRENT SESSIONS

1. Cash Landing: Government Funding For Alternative Fuelsand Technologies — Flagstaff 1

Rising oil prices have fueled both the private and public sectors to find eco-nomically sound ways to run businesses that are mindful of the environ-ment. Representatives from various government agencies discuss fundingopportunities for alternative fuels and advanced technologies.

2. Special Delivery: Niche Markets that Make Cents — Flagstaff 4

Refuse, transit, school bus and delivery vehicle markets have all reapedfinancial benefits when running on alternative fuels. This session presentsend users and analysts who can show the cost savings for these niche mar-kets when running on alternative fuels.

3. Fueling the Momentum: The Technical Realities and Future Prospectsfor Hybrids — Prescott 6

This panel of experts offers a comprehensive assessment of hybrid technol-ogy, fuel economy, and emissions benefits for both light- and heavy-dutyapplications. Light-duty applications have seen record growth and OEMsare now focusing on refining production and increasing market share. Theheavy-duty market also is growing with transit agencies leading the pack,followed by delivery and utility applications. Panelists look at the market-place today and the economic advantages that lie ahead.

4. Fuel Speed Ahead: The Global Commercialization of Biofuels — Prescott 8

Biofuels dominate headlines around the globe. The market breakthroughsthat ethanol and biodiesel are seeing present tremendous possibilities foreven greater market penetration. Panelists share existing and new strate-gic targets to grow the use of biofuels, as well as a look at what increasedsupply will do to bring down the costs.

3:00 PM – 3:45 PM BREAK — Lobby One

3:45 PM – 5:15 PM CONCURRENT SESSIONS

1. Crude Awakening: Corporate America Profits fromAlternative Fuels — Flagstaff 1

Unprecedented oil prices have companies everywhere seeking alternatives.Add to that demands by shareholders and consumers to act in an environ-mentally responsible manner and the result is corporate America findingalternative fuels and advanced vehicle technology solutions that make busi-ness sense. This session features decisionmakers from corporate Americawho are using or considering using alternative fuels/advanced technologiesin their fleets.

2. Array of Hope: Coordinator Award Winners Share Their Secretsfor Success — Flagstaff 4

About three hours prior to this session, three Clean Cities Coordinators dis-cover that they have been chosen by their fellow coordinators to receiveawards for a job well done. It was about that time that they learned theyare part of this afternoon’s program. This session features a facilitated dis-cussion between the 2006 winners and two of their coordinator colleagues.This is the best impromptu session on the program!

3. Exhausted No More: Global Efforts to Curb Vehicle Emissions — Prescott 6

Many countries with the worst air pollution are the same ones enjoyingprosperous economic growth. The economic and social costs have theminvesting in alternative fuels and advanced technologies to reverse the“pollute now, clean later” philosophy. Panelists address the transportationoptions in which these countries are investing to reduce vehicle emissions.

4. Liquid Assets: The Growing U.S. LNG Market — Prescott 8

LNG use in the United States is expected to increase by 25% or more by2020. LNG is being used in many places including the Port of Los Angeles,in a Cummins Westport pilot demo project with the City of San Franciscoand Norcal Waste Systems, and in a one-year “Clean Air Corridor” projectbetween Ontario and Michigan. The successes, challenges, and opportuni-ties will be presented by those using the fuel.

5:15 PM – 6:30 PM AFVI EXPO HALL MIXER — Hall B

We’re full of great ideas. GM is proud to support the efforts of the Clean Cities Program. With over a dozen alternative fuel vehicles and a variety of fuel options, we’re fully equipped to meet your needs. Come see what’s new at Booth 500.