Buses World News
In brief: Worldwide montly news & informations about Buses, Busmakers, Passengers' and the Transport Industry
Bio-Fuel * USA - Nation's Largest School Bus Company Switches Entire Fleet To
The nation's largest independent school bus company, the Cook Illinois Corporation in Chicago, is switching its entire fleet of school buses to burn bio diesel fuelChicago,Ill,USA -Peak Oil -4 Sept 2007: -- ... In addition, company officials will kick off a new Clean Air Club for kids and a new website that teaches kids about the importance of reducing air pollution. Cook-Illinois is now the largest school bus fleet in Illinois and the largest independently owned bus company in the country to use this new fuel...Labels: biofuel
BIODIESEL * Spain - Pamplona switches buses to biodiesel
Madrid,Spain -Reuters -Feb 16, 2007: -- Pamplona started running 50 city buses on pure biodiesel this week, becoming the first city in Spain to do so, supplier Acciona, said on Friday... Acciona will deliver 1.5 million liters of fuel a year, produced from vegetable oil at its plant at Caparrosa, also in northern Spain... Acciona said the city planned to extend biodiesel use to the whole fleet of 127 buses...Labels: biofuel
Biofuel * Australia - Could power all our buses
Victoria,Australia -The Victoria Times Colonist, by Freya Keddie -Feb 03, 2007: -- I had supported the concept of resource recovery from sewage long before I was convinced that sewage treatment was even necessary. It makes sense to develop a secure, local source of renewable biofuels for our public transit system... It is estimated that Capital Regional District sewage could supply enough biodiesel for all of our buses, with no change to vehicles or refuelling infrastructure... Compare this to the heavily subsidized "hydrogen highway," requiring new buses at $2 million a pop plus millions more public dollars to subsidize the infrastructure, with much of that money going to private corporations...Labels: biofuel
