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Portland Oregon water bureau trucks running on B99

The water bureau in Portland, OR has been running their fleet of diesel-powered trucks on B20 biodiesel since August 2004. After doing more analysis and testing they began running their entire fleet on B99 on September 26. The water bureau uses about 100,000 gallons of diesel fuel annually and determined that switch would be almost cost neutral. They also hope to help spur more local production of biodiesel. Portland's 84-vehicle fleet includes a wide variety of equipment like backhoes, dump trucks, graders, pickups and others. With this ... Read more →

Green racing: Bio-diesel at Le Mans in 2008 Bruno Vanzieleghem

Portland Oregon water bureau trucks running on B99 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Green racing: Bio-diesel at Le Mans in 2008 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Our readers might not consider motor sports as a very green activity, but some people are trying to at least improve the image of the sport. After the announcement from Audi a few months ago that it would be entering a diesel-powered race car at Le Mans, a French team which has entered cars in the ...

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