Cafeterias' Fuel? - USA - Some North Carolina school buses using recycled vegetable oil for fuel
Gastonia, NC,USA -WIS(Columbia,SC), by Bryce Mursch/AP -Oct 11, 2005: -- Gaston County, North Carolina, school buses don't need a gas station to fill up. The cafeteria or the nearest restaurant will do, and it's only 60 cents a gallon... The system says it's the first in the state to use recycled vegetable oil and produce its own bio-diesel fuel. School officials are collecting the oil from school cafeterias and restaurants and they're looking for more donors... Superintendent Ed Sadler says school officials will produce about 12,000 gallons of bio-diesel fuel this year and up to 60,000 gallons in the future, which amounts to a savings of about $150,000 a year... The coordinator for Centralina Clean Fuels Coalition says bio-diesel fuel is biodegradable and produces less sulfates...
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