Bellyache - USA - Bean-based biodiesel gives it to buses
Aspen,CO,USA -Aspen Times, by Chad Abraham -Dec 4, 2005: -- As nutritional as they are, beans can also be the source of occasional discomfort... While beans in humans can lead to gas, beans in the gas of local buses has led to engine indigestion. Like someone who has had one pinto too many, some buses in Aspen that run on soybean-based biodiesel started having trouble about three weeks ago... After a bus repeatedly failed to start, mechanics unveiled the problem: a green, algae-like substance clogging up the fuel tank. The tank, like the rest of the other buses in the Roaring Fork Transportation Authority fleet, holds diesel fuel and a 5 percent mixture of biodiesel fuel... No passengers were inconvenienced, and the problem has already been remedied by the fuel supplier, Agland, a farmer-owned cooperative based near Greeley. The work cost Agland $6,000...
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