From Chesapeake Quick News, March 2010

Bossier City Builds for the Future of Transportation

Compressed natural gas fueling stations will soon become a common part of the landscape in Bossier City.

There are less than 1,000 public and private compressed natural gas fueling stations in America, but thanks to Bossier City, the U.S. can soon add two additional stations to that number.

The City is constructing two public natural gas fueling stations, the first of which is currently under development next to the city municipal complex and will be finished in just months. "We expect these to be just the first of several stations later on," said Bossier City Mayor Lorenz "Lo" Walker.

City leaders say they hope to tap into natural gas, the plentiful alternative fuel that can cost a third less than a gallon of gasoline, especially since Bossier City is sitting on the Haynesville Shale - one of the largest natural gas deposits in the world. Work on the first station should be completed this summer, followed by construction on the second station.

Plans have also been discussed to convert many city-owned vehicles to run on natural gas. "It's just not the people of Bossier City that will use them," Walker said of the stations. "It's people from Shreveport and other towns in our area as well -- all  over the community."