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ALTERNATIVE FUELS * USA - Eastern Shore Bus Service Cutting Biodiesel Use
Saying costs are higher than expected to fuel and maintain smaller vehicles
Salisbury,MD,USA -AP -Mar 22, 2010: -- An Eastern Shore commuter bus service is cutting the number of vehicles using biodiesel, saying costs are higher than expected to fuel and maintain smaller vehicles... Riggin Johnson, director of the tri-county Shore Transit service, says diesel is more cost efficient for larger buses, but there isn't much difference between gasoline and diesel for smaller vehicles... Johnson says four new small buses delivered over the last six months run on gasoline and smaller buses ordered in the future will have gasoline engines, which are less expensive to maintain... Johnson says gasoline prices are also currently about 20 cents below diesel and biodiesel... (Photo from btco.net)
Labels: biodiesel troubles
BIO DIESEL * USA - Cold leaves bio-diesel school buses at a standstill
Saint Paul,MN,USA -KSTP/TV -15 Jan 2009: -- Bloomington Public Schools have made the decision to close all their schools for Friday in part due to the cold weather. But it's the because of the fuel that school buses use that's creating the bigger problem.
District officials said they’ve experienced problems with a number of its school buses on Thursday morning because sub-zero temperatures created clogging issues for their bio-diesel fuel systems... Spokesperson Rick Kaufman explained the bio-diesel fuel breaks away in cold temperatures around 10 degrees above zero. This part of the fuel then sinks to the bottom of the fuel tank where the fuel filter is and then clogs the fuel pump, inevitably shutting the vehicle down... Kaufman said stand-by buses also experienced the same fuel system issues Thursday, which led to students having to wait at bus stops in dangerous weather ... The state requires all school buses to use this type of fuel...Labels: biodiesel troubles
BIODIESEL TROUBLES * USA - Fungus in fuel tank slows down school buses
Bunker Hill,IND,USA -Associated Press/The Wabash Plain Dealer (Wabash, Indiana) -Feb 11, 2007: -- It wasn't just frigid weather that caused Maconaquah School Corp. to delay the start of classes Friday by two hours - a fungus also played a role... Ron Kirkpatrick, the administrative assistant to Superintendent Carmine Gentile, said fungal and bacterial growths were found in the main biodiesel tank used to fuel up the district's buses... Kirkpatrick said the substance, which was of the same consistency of melted caramel, clogged up the buses' fuel filters and left the vehicles stalled...Labels: biodiesel troubles
Salisbury,MD,USA -AP -Mar 22, 2010: -- An Eastern Shore commuter bus service is cutting the number of vehicles using biodiesel, saying costs are higher than expected to fuel and maintain smaller vehicles... Riggin Johnson, director of the tri-county Shore Transit service, says diesel is more cost efficient for larger buses, but there isn't much difference between gasoline and diesel for smaller vehicles... Johnson says four new small buses delivered over the last six months run on gasoline and smaller buses ordered in the future will have gasoline engines, which are less expensive to maintain... Johnson says gasoline prices are also currently about 20 cents below diesel and biodiesel... (Photo from btco.net)
