From the Texas Railroad Commission
On May 5, Commissioner David Porter gave the opening remarks at the ACT Expo in Dallas, Texas. More than 3,500 attendees and over 200 exhibitors convened at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas for the industry’s largest annual alternative fuel conference and expo. Commissioner Porter gave an update on his Texas Natural Gas Initiative. Commissioner Porter noted, “We’ve made some major progress in Texas since 2013. Natural gas motor-fuel sales, the number of natural gas vehicles, and the number of natural gas fueling stations are surging in our state. The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts reports natural-gas motor-fuel tax collections doubled in the first six months of fiscal 2015 compared to fiscal 2014, jumping from $1.1 million to $2.2 million. At $0.15/gallon equivalent, these receipts represent sales 14.6 million gallon equivalents of CNG and LNG, compared to 7.3 million previously.” He continued, “The number of natural gas vehicles has more than doubled in the past two years, to more than 7,900 vehicles. The number of stations has kept pace, doubling from 69 to 136 in the same period. New figures from the Railroad Commission show that investment in natural gas vehicles and fueling stations in Texas totaled $260 million in the past two years, with a 12:1 match of private to public investment.”