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LYNX To Be First Mass-Transit Agency To Go Green
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 8:20:56 AM
ORLANDO -- LYNX is going green and making history in the process.
The
agency will soon become the first mass-transit agency in the country to
use its own blended bio-diesel as an alternative to regular fuel.
The
move is being made possible by a $2.5 million dollar state grant that
will be used to convert all of the agency's buses to the new fuel.
Officials
said using the alternative fuel will allow Lynx to use 1.2 million
fewer gallons of diesel fuel a year and meet Gov. Charlie Crist's call
for a 10 percent reduction of greenhouse gases by 2012.
The
blending process is expected to start in 2009. It will produce a fuel
that is 80 percent petroleum-based diesel and 20 percent from
plant-derived oils.
The blending station will serve the diesel fleets from Orange County and the Orlando Utilities Commission.
