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To: SSP who wrote (85171)	5/27/2001 1:57:51 PM
From: Bernard Ng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 150070

Not in TMGSE, don't know what's going on with that one either LOL, except it ran last week. Thanks for telling me :-) and damn CCAA got an E again... they need some new PR writers as well as some filing experts, they seem like to miss important deadlines :-( Bernard

To: SSP who wrote (85171)	5/27/2001 2:22:59 PM
From: Jim Bishop	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 150070

Biodiesel: biz.yahoo.com Vegetable Oil-Based Fuel Debuts First Public Pumping Station for Biodiesel, a Vegetable Oil-Based Fuel, Opens in San Francisco By COLLEEN VALLES Associated Press Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- San Francisco vehicle exhaust may soon smell like french fries with the opening of the first public pumping station for biodiesel, a vegetable oil-based fuel, in a major city. The alternative fuel station opened Wednesday, a day after a similar station opened in Sparks, Nev. The fuel, made from either soybean oil or recycled vegetable oil from restaurants, avoids the release of carbon monoxide and the small particles released by burning traditional diesel. It doesn't cut down on smog-causing nitrogen oxide, however. Diesel engines can use the fuel without any modification, and it contributes to the life of the engine by increasing lubrication so moving parts won't break down as easily, said Robert Skinner, a spokesman for World Energy Alternatives, the company providing biodiesel to the San Francisco station. And, yes, it does make the exhaust smell like french fries. The station offers 100 percent biodiesel fuel, but a fuel made with 20 percent biodiesel, 80 percent petroleum diesel, is available at other facilities. Biodiesel has some drawbacks. It's more expensive than regular diesel, selling for about $3.15 a gallon in San Francisco and about $1.62 a gallon in Sparks. It also causes a slight drop in fuel economy. The fuel is used primarily by fleets of vehicles such as school buses, Skinner said. ``We've got about 60 large-scale fleets using biodiesel, from the U.S. Air Force to the New Jersey transit system,'' he said. Biodiesel can help federal fleets meet a regulation requiring them to reduce their annual petroleum consumption 20 percent by 2005. The federal government estimates sales of the fuel reached 6.7 million gallons in 2000 and could reach 20 million gallons this year. Prices have come down, in part because of a subsidy for soybean biodiesel producers, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. Biodiesel dates back more than 100 years, and peanut oil was the first type of fuel used by Rudolf Diesel to power his first engine in 1895. ``As we move into a time when petroleum is not so readily available, we're turning back the clock,'' Skinner said. ``It's the most effective greenhouse gas reduction technology for existing engines.'' ^------= On the Net: California Transportation Program: dot.ca.gov Bluewater Network: www.earthisland.org/bw/bwnhome.shtml National Biodiesel Board: biodiesel.org