Small towns get creative as fuel costs bite

The ideas seem to abound as ENN reports:

Small towns get creative as fuel costs bite

In New Hampshire , the small city of Franklin floated the idea of turning off nearly half of its 513 street lamps to stem rising costs and shave up to $24,000 off the annual budget.

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In Bisbee, a former copper mining town of 6,000 in southeastern Arizona, city workers are being told not to idle their vehicles but switch them off when stopped to save fuel.

Another measure involves recycling engine oil from city vehicles and using it to heat municipal garages in winter.

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Reverting to more traditional means of battling energy costs, the town of Canton, Connecticut, wants to harness power from two century-old local dams to cover rising costs.