Utah State Provides a Green Example
Utah is looking spurring on the development of green transport strategies and policies by purchasing $4.5 million worth of green vehicles and doubling the number of its green vehicle fleet by converting another hundred vehicles from gas to natural gas.
One reason we think this should be highlighted is because it underpins the role of government in helping lead the way by taking the initiative in what has become a federally mandated issue for the country. Government is a huge consumer in its own right and by following on, the source of a major portion of pollutants and carbon emissions which are creating such havoc for our world and the future for our children and grand-children.
Government agencies command huge budgets and it is acts such as this that really will help drive the demand and adoption of green car technology by firstly, providing a much needed economic boost into the sales and profit figures, acting as a major endorser by using the green car technology and providing a visible and tangible product in use out on the highways and in the sight of other potential consumers and buyers.
At this time there is a huge background noise going on with the conversion not so much of actual cars to green principles but the mindset of the consumer and potential buyers of green car technology. This has been blurred by the recent economic crisis which if anything will underline the need for economics to be straightened out so the green technology stands on its own two feet in the fierce world of competition and delivering the needs demanded by consumers.
Utah has taken a great step forward by the decision to go forward with green but this needs to be replicated repeatedly around the country and not only with government but big business too – something the big auto makers have probably learned after their collective faux pas in flying to Washington DC in luxury business jets back when the crisis broke last year – a month later they almost all drove to DC in green cars their respective companies were working on.
