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It is Time to Stop the Bleed

It is Time to Stop the Bleed by  Rich Harpole  ( Notes ) on Thursday, April 25, 2013 at 7:41am Public Friends Only Me Custom Close Friends Family See all lists... Barstow Community College Barstow (CA) Police Department Family Barstow, California Area Clinton High School, Clinton, IA United States Army Acquaintances Go Back It may have seemed like a good idea back in 2005--build a compressed natural gas (CNG) station in Barstow, using someone else's money (MDAQMD) and reduce the City's costs for fueling city vehicles including those of our contractors such as the city transit system and the solid waste hauler, there by reducing our costs on those contracts.  However, today we find the City CNG operation is a boondoggle drowning in red ink. In January 2010, Karen Jonas [i] , reporting for the  Desert Dispatch , pointed out the problem with the CNG operation--from day one, it lost money,nearly $500,000 between 2006 and 2010.  ...