The facility also offers another clean fuel alternative -- Liquefied Natural Gas and soon commercial trucks could be filling up here.
Tulare Public Works Director Lew Nelson said, "Liquefied Natural Gas has just a fraction of the soot that a Diesel truck has so the fine particulate - the smoke - is gone."
Nelson said the city of Tulare has agreed to let national gas giant "Clean Energy" spend $500,000 to expand the city's liquefied natural gas station ... which right now is only used by the city's waste and some transit trucks.
"Clean Energy," a company founded by Billionaire T. Boone Pickens, is now trying to focus on serving a growing number of large diesel trucks that have been converted to only use liquefied natural gas as fuel.
So what's the difference between liquefied natural gas -- or LNG -- and compressed natural gas -- or CNG? To start with, liquefied natural gas is cheaper -- today only a $1.24 for a gallon and is used for large trucks. It's compressed and cooled to 260-degrees below zero until it turns to liquid.
"It has 600 times as much natural gas in a gallon as a typical gas you'd get in your home so if you liquefy it and put it on a truck you carry a whole lot more fuel," said Nelson.
The city hopes to have the expanded facility up and running by the end of the year.
