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Article: Albany turns to golf carts to save money
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- St. Joseph News-Press
- Article date:
- July 8, 2008
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ALBANY, Mo. -- Norman Davis uses a golf cart for his grocery
shopping, to go to the post office and to haul sacks of pet food.
Of course, it's all accomplished with burning less fuel than an
SUV. It's opened up a new front in the war on high gas prices.
Mr. Davis and other Albany residents are free to run golf carts
for errands and any other need on the city's streets. City officials
enacted a new law July 1 that allows golf carts to legally cruise
the streets just like any other authorized vehicle.
He waves to other motorists stopped at a four-way intersection
near City Hall, preparing to head toward the Gentry County
Courthouse. He was the first in town to receive a golf cart permit.
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