Citizens Against Government Waste #9 - www.cagw.org
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) has purchased three zero-emission hydrogen buses whose operating costs appear to be exceeding their effectiveness.13 In fact, the VTA has determined that these buses cost more than $51/mile to fuel and maintain, compared to $1.61/mile to operate a diesel bus. Despite taxpayers being on the hook for the hydrogen buses, the California Air Resources Board is poised to spend $36 million in 2009 to expand the program statewide. This is an effort to meet yet another costly mandate that large transportation agencies must have 15 percent of their fleets comprised of zero emission buses by 2012.
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