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What kind of oil is best for school buses? |
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are many types of vegetable oils that grow in the US like sunflower,
soy, and canola. However all these oils currently go to feed humans
and animals so the oil of choice the biofuels4schools campaign
promotes is the waste oil that comes from restaurants.
Not that we
encourage eating more fried food but the amount of waste oil produced
from restaurants could easily fuel our nations school buses. So where
is the waste oil going, you might ask?
Well,
the oil is collected by renderers with trucks that go to these
restaurants to collect it with their pumps. The oil is then filtered
and heated and turned into a product called yellow grease.
Manufacturers who make animal feed, makeup, paint thinners and a whole
bunch of other products purchase this yellow grease.
There currently
is not enough waste oil to replace our total consumption of diesel
but the biofuels4schools campaign proposes there is enough to replace
the consumption of diesel school buses that our most precious cargo
travels on 4 billion miles every year. This campaign will be working
with local and national school bus fleet contractors, cities,
restaurants, renderers, Biodiesel manufacturers, distributors,
petroleum distributors and youth of all ages to ensure our kids truly
get a safe ride to school.
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