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Minnesota state fleet using 77 percent more E85 this year

The Minnesota SmartFleet Committee took a look at the amount of E85 used thus far in 2008 and found that the biofuel mixture's use is way up compared to 2007. In the first nine months of 2008, the state fleet of about 1,700 flexfuel vehicles has burned 529,000 gallons of E85; in the same time period in 2007, this number was just 295,000 gallons. That's an increase of about 77 percent and E85 now makes up about 12 percent of all the fuel that the state buys. As is almost always the case with these sorts of governmental initiatives, the ... Read more →

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