San Francisco opens first commercial B20 station
San Francisco has plans to covert the city's entire fleet of diesel vehicles to run on B20 biodiesel by the end of this year. Now there's a commercial gas station ready to sell B20 to any vehicle that can digest the fuel. Located in the industrial neighborhood known as Dogpatch, the Olympian station sells the fuel partially made out of grease collected from city restaurants. So far, about 39 percent of city's fleet have made the switch to B20. The city also wants to convert the public bus system to B20. The Olympian station was the first station to in North America to offer B100 and also one of the first to offer ultra-low sulfur diesel.
[Source: Erica Ogg / CNET News]
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Joseph 6:19PM (4/25/2007)
Sanfransisco? No B20 until now? That seems strange. California is always the one that is going forward with new environmental technologies before the rest of the country.
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1985 Gripen 5:56PM (4/25/2007)
B20 is a start, but isn't all that impressive to me. If they called it "P80" (for "Petroleum 80%") it'd even sound less impressive.
Has anyone done a calculation to find out which fuel uses less petroleum mile-for-mile: B20 or E85? At what point does biodiesel have enough actual biodiesel fuel in it (in relation to petrodiesel) that it's better than E85?
There are a couple of fuel stations in L.A. that I heard of carry B100.
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TDI-Nick 8:07PM (4/25/2007)
B20 should give better MPGs compared to B100 and is a good compromise (and cheaper).
UC Berkley researchers are working on a biofuels rating system. Saw it on GCC.
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Nerd 7:29PM (5/23/2007)
When can we get more E85 stations there are only 2 in the ENTIRE Bay area...tht sucks...
california should do more ..more E85 every were
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