Sprawl Strikes Again: City Hall To Spend An Extra $3 Million On Gas

[spuwho]

Or start buying hybrids and using them as police patrol cars. 

Or at least find less than full-size gas hogs like the Impalas and Crown Vics.  Those things suck on gas (literally).

Ford has already rolled out more fuel efficient vehicles for law enforcement.

See http://blogs.automotive.com/6720704/miscellaneous/ford-pitches-improved-fuel-economy-to-sell-police-interceptors/index.html



Current hybrids are good for the Community Service vehicles, but other than trucks, there are no hybrid based cars that pass the police vehicle test.

[tufsu1]

great...but this requires the City/JSO to buy all new cars...doubt there's $ for that

[mtraininjax]

Commonwealth does not want 5 different cars to have to fix. So look for the city to stay with Chevy, it makes fixes and maintenance much easier. Sometimes the gas cost is not the only factor to deal with, gotta think of the whole expense and life of the vehicle.

That is why the Dodge product is not in use by COJ, but you see in use by FHP.