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Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile
I can't for the life of me understand why public school bus fleets haven't been converted to CNG or LNG like a lot of other municipal vehicles (including transit buses). It would actually make more sense - school buses are bigger (more emissions/fuel consumption), they're used more regularly (at least twice a day with a lot of stop-go), etc.
Why we cling to the convention of big, heavy, diesel buses with no seatbelts for our kids is completely lost on me. Is there a legitimate reason for this or is it more special interests & government stupidity/misappropriations?
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I think diesel is safer.
Also, the seatbelt thing has been studied and re-studied. For what ever reason (maybe the small chance of rapid deacceleration in a bus) no seatbelts and padded seats and seatbacks are safer..