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A Holiday Gift That Keeps on Giving:
Propane School Buses
ith the holidays experienced it directly with for student transportation
upon us, it’s hard our own kids in school We More than 1 million kids ride
to believe that must find a way to drive that daily in these safe, reliable
Wwe are ready percentage lower to ensure and clean buses Propane
to put a bow on 2018 It’s more quality interaction be- buses have the lowest emis-
been quite a year of unpre- tween student and teacher sions profile of any commer-
dictability — from extreme The question is, how cially viable solution and,
weather to fluctuating fuel do we pay for it? even more importantly for
prices to divisive politics There is no silver bullet, school district budgets, they
One issue that should but one readily available, reduce costs Most school
get no argument is our proven solution is by reduc- district and contractor part-
nation’s investment in edu- ing school transportation ners save at least $3,000
cation We must continue costs and putting that mon- per bus per year in fuel and
to focus our attention to- ey back into the classroom maintenance costs It adds
ward educating our future If every American school up quickly
leaders in order to maintain district replaced older, dirtier Here’s another fact:
our leadership position as a diesel school buses with pro- It costs all of us taxpay-
country pane autogas buses, the as- ers $960 to transport each
Here’s a fact: The sociated cost savings would public-school student to
ratio of students to teachers allow us to hire an additional school annually How much
has increased In addition 20,000 teachers into our na- lower could that number
to reports from the Nation- tion’s education system be with buses operating on
al Center for Education Propane autogas has a domestic fuel that’s half
Statistics, many of us have emerged as the clear leader the cost and reduces main-
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