Fuel Alternatives - USA - Counties Switch to Biodiesel School Buses Staff and agencies
CHARLESTON, W.Va.,USA -Leading The Charge/Milton,Queensland,Australia/by BRIAN FARKAS -01 Oct, 2005: -- Biodiesel use has been growing since 1992 when Congress passed the Energy Policy Act in a move to reduce the nation‘s dependency on foreign oil. It has since been approved by the federal Environmental Protection Agency as an alternative fuel... School systems have contributed to the growth. About 100 systems nationwide have made the switch, "and that number is growing all the time," said... "The good part of that is we‘ve displaced 600,000 gallons of petroleum fuel," said... And, perhaps, more importantly, recent petroleum price increases — coupled with state and federal incentives — now makes biodiesel an economical choice... The EPA is requiring refiners to produce lower sulfur diesel fuel beginning next year, and diesel engine manufacturers to build cleaner burning engines by 2010. The agency estimates the new rule will cut emissions of smog-forming nitrogen oxides, soot, carbon monoxide, acid rain-causing sulfur dioxide and other air pollutants, preventing 8,300 premature deaths, more than 9,500 hospitalizations and 1.5 million lost work days...
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