AT&T Plans to Get 8,000 Natural Gas Vehicle Battalion

(Note: blogger.com won't let me put an "&" in AT&T in the lables section, so I didn't include AT&T.)

This bit from physorg.:

AT&T Inc. said Wednesday it will spend up to $350 million over five years to buy more than 8,000 Ford Motor Co. vans and trucks, then convert them to run on compressed natural gas.

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The company said it will spend the money over five years. While AT&T will buy the chassis from Ford, it has not yet selected a vendor to perform the conversion to natural gas, AT&T pokesman Fletcher Cook said.

The vehicles will be used by technicians who perform installations and
maintain the telecommunications network, Cook said. The company will build 40
natural-gas filling stations to keep them rolling.

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AT&T will also spend $215 million over 10 years to replace 7,100 passenger cars with hybrids, and eventually cars powered by other fuel sources, it said.

- Brewskie