Great idea!!! The big apple could soon change its name to the "big Green apple".  I am glad the mayor is trying to be proactive.

Ford is leading the diesel revolution with the 2008 Super Duty, offering the segment's first clean diesel engine. It more compatible for the green city of NY. Much talk about taxi's in city, how about the ford trucks. I checked

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I wonder why we haven't heard of more cities lauching this type of intiative.  It's about time. 

In addition to making the yellow cab brigade entirely green within five years, the city will require all new vehicles entering the fleet after October 2008 to achieve a minimum of 25 miles per gallon. A year later, all new vehicles must get 30 miles per gallon, Ford catalytic converter installed and be hybrid. Bloomberg made the announcement on NBC’s “Today” show. Hybrid vehicles are typically more expensive, but the city said the increase in fuel efficiency will save taxi operators more than $10,000 per year. Yahoo Inc. said it would donate 10 hybrid Ford Escapes for the city’s effort.

 

Every local government in the country limits the number of cabs to ensure taxi drivers get enough business to turn a profit and they are making sure of the safetiness and its ford performance parts. Otherwise every unemployed person in the county would be trying to sell rides and there would be no such thing as a professional taxi fleet.

 

New York is not the first to go hybrid with its cab fleet. San Francisco took the plunge in 2005 when 40 Ford Escape hybrid taxis hit the streets there. San Francisco is also home to 140 Ford Crown Victoria cabs retrofitted to run on cleaner-burning compressed natural gas (CNG), which has been shown to reduce ozone-forming emissions by 80 percent as compared to traditional gasoline. The city’s goal is to have half its taxi fleet—some 600 vehicles—powered by cleaner-energy sources (either hybrids or CNG) by 2008.

 

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