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18 dispensed by the County into County vehicles and equipment over the last 6 fiscal yearsla In the past, vehicles that were stationed or driven primarily on the south side of the County also got fuel from the Town of Chapel. Hill or UNC. The County has now switched to the Gogas fuel card system which allows County drivers who have been issued a fuel card to get fuel at any location that accepts the card. The Gogas card will save money and time by allowing drivers to fuel up at many retail locations in North Carolina. The cost for fuel has risen dramatically during the period covered by this report, going from $1.29 in July of 2004, to a height of $4.19 in September of 200815, and ending at $2.11 in June 2010. Over the last 6 fiscal years, the County's fleet has stayed fairly stable in size, with a little over 300 vehicles active at any given time. The fleet, however, has added 12 hybrid vehicles over that time period, which can reach as high as 50 miles per gallon. However the County's use of fuel has trended up and then down over the last 6 fiscal years as seen in figure 5. Fuel usage reached its height in FY 2008 at 270,025 gallons, a 13% increase from the FY 05 usage. Starting in FY 08, with the extra attention paid to the cost of fuel, County departments made a conscious effort to drive less and be more fuel efficient, causing fuel usage to drop by 11 % between FY 08 and FY 10, reaching almost the same level of usage as in FY 05. Figure 5: Miles Traveled by Fiscal Year ~.~ 7d] FM. zso,ooo zoo,ooo iso,ooo ioo,ooo so,ooo LJtf,l D4 ~ '- - ~--- cw,o io ~ FY OS (Base) FY 06 FY 07 FY OB hY 09 FY 10 Rseal Years The miles traveled by the County's fleet have remained flat when comparing the FY 05 figure of 2,936,379 miles to the FY 10 figure of 3,026,441, an increase of only 3%. Both fuel consumed and miles driven by the County's fleet peaked in FY 08, with fuel usage 13% higher then in FY 05. Since FY 08, miles driven by 14 In the past the County provided fuel at cost to outside agencies; including the Town of Hillsborough, the ABC Board, Orange Enterprises, and OPC Mental Health. However, due to a change in IRS regulations, it was deemed no longer permissible to provide fuel to outside entities. The last outside agency to fuel at the County fueling station, the Town of Hillsborough, stopped getting fuel on Jan. 24"' 2011. Also not included in these figures is fuel used by the Sanitation Division when it was managed by the former Public Works Department and funded through the general fund. This ensures that the figures are comparable from year to year. The compressed natural gas (CNG) facility is no longer in o~eration due to high repairs costs and difficulty in obtaining replacement parts. ' Fuel prices were affected both by global demand and speculation in the oil market but also by the shutdown of the Gulf oil pipeline in August of 2008. 15