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Solar Utility Vehicle (SUV) to be a Hot Commodity at Florida State Fair


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BP to Present SUV to Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

  What:
  BP America presentation of the keys to a Solar Utility Vehicle to Charles
  Bronson, Commissioner, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer
  Services (FDACS) for use at the Forestry Education Center

  
  When:
  Thursday, Feb. 7, 2008
  2:30 pm

  Where:
  Florida State Fair, FDACS Farm to Fuel Exhibit, State Fairgrounds, 4800
  State Highway 301, Tampa, FL

  Who:
  Charles Bronson, Commissioner, FDACS
  Kathy Randall, Director, BP America

  
  Background
  As part of its "Fabric of America" program, BP America is donating 50
  Solar Utility Vehicles (SUVs) to state and federal parks, state agencies,
  zoos and wildlife management areas to demonstrate the continuing
  advancement of clean and quiet solar technology.  This is the first SUV BP
  America is donating to the state of Florida.

  To date, BP America has donated SUVs to the organizations listed below:
  MD Department of General Services
  MD Department of Natural Resources
  Audubon Zoo, New Orleans
  Sweetwater State Park, Atlanta
  NYC Dept of Parks
  Louisiana Wildlife & Fisheries
  Sandhill Crane Refuge/Gautier, MS
  Houston/Discovery Green
  Ulysses, Kansas
  University of Wyoming

  For more information on BP in America visit www.bp.com/us