Keeping clean.Five alternative fuel transportation projects in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County were among the recipients of the California Energy Commission's Clean Cities Awards, sharing part a $2.5 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy. The commission aims to replace 20 percent of the state's on-road fuel consumption with alternative fuels by 2020, and awarded grants of between $100,000 and $250,000 to local applicants. Most of the recipients are using the money to defray de·fray tr.v. de·frayed, de·fray·ing, de·frays To undertake the payment of (costs or expenses); pay. [French défrayer, from Old French desfrayer : des-, the cost of vehicles using compressed natural gas Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) is a substitute for gasoline (petrol) or diesel fuel. It is considered to be an environmentally "clean" alternative to those fuels. It is made by compressing natural gas (which is mainly composed by methane (CH4 . One, Clean Energy Fuels Corp. of Seal Beach, received $100,000 to subsidize the purchase 40 new CNG CNG Compressed Natural Gas CNG Calling (Tone) CNG Comfort Noise Generation CNG Cryptography Next Generation (Microsoft Windows Vista) CNG Centre National de Génotypage shuttle buses by Supershuttle. "The natural gas vans cost $2,500 more, and the grant money pays for the difference," said Barbara Johnson, a grants specialist at Clean Energy. "Over the past five years, we've secured over $50 million in similar grants for our customers nationwide." |
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