From Smoky Mountain News:
It’s not quite the Jetsons’ flying car, but Jackson County is moving toward its own fleet of new-age vehicles powered by the emerging alternative fuel propane.
The county’s public transit department is poised to outfit nine of its shuttle busses and vans with propane tanks — and the ability to switch back and forth to gasoline with a simple toggle of a control button near the steering wheel.
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