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Bill Makes Purchasing CNG Vehicle Easier

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia,
Ohio Public Radio
Published April 3, 2015 at 9:28 AM EDT

State lawmakers want to make it easier to purchase vehicles fueled by compressed natural gas or CNG. But there are some hurdles. Ohio Public Radio's Andy Chow explains.

What came first? The chicken or the egg? Believe it or not—discussions on expanding CNG use in Ohio normally include this common debate since CNG cars need CNG filling stations and vice-versa.  
 
Democratic Representative Sean O’Brien is working on bipartisan legislation that incentivizes people who buy CNG cars or those who convert their current vehicles to run on CNG. He says stations are already popping up around the state.  
 
O’Brien: “They’re coming—it’s just taking more time and if we had more of these incentives going on I believe more and more of these stations would be built.”  
 
O’Brien hopes to introduce the bill with Republican Representative Dave Hall in the next couple of weeks.
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Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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