AUSTIN, Texas (May 6, 2008) — As part of a state-wide tour, Texas Railroad Commission Chairman Michael Williams will visit seven school districts in the next week to push officials to replace their older diesel buses with newer, cleaner propane buses.

Williams has even gone so far as posting a video on YouTube to reach people across the entire state of Texas. The 2008 Breathe Easy Texas Propane Tour visited Kilgore yesterday and will continue on to San Antonio today, and Beaumont, Houston, Austin, Richardson and Fort Worth throughout the rest of the week.

"These visits will focus on the air quality benefits and the big cost savings available to districts that run their school buses on alternative fuels," said Williams in his video invitation. "The new propane bus reduces key emissions by more than 85 percent."

The Railroad Commission of Texas, the state’s energy agency, is offering grants of up to $30,000 per new propane school bus that replaces an older diesel bus.