Get on the bus, dammit!
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Why the hell aren't school busses running on biodiesel? Remember in elementary school when they would teach you how to recycle and be good to the environment. Well, here's an easy way for those same schools to get it right. It's a no brainer. Here's the stats [via Veggie Van]:- 24 million children ride the school bus every day.
- On average, students spend an hour and a half every weekday in a school bus.
- School buses in the US travel over 4 billion miles each year.
- Of the 450,000 school buses in the USA 390,000 of them run on harmful petroleum diesel.
- 350 million gallons of diesel are used every year in school buses.
- Asthma is the number one cause of absenteeism in school children.
- Diesel emissions pollute the natural environment.
- Biodiesel cuts harmful emissions by up to 85%
- Biodiesel can run in any unmodified diesel engine.
- Biodiesel is made from vegetable oils grown in America.
- Biodiesel lessens our dependence on foreign oil.
- Biodiesel cleans the engine as it goes prolonging the life of the engine.
Willie has used biodiesel fuels on his tour bus for the last couple years and has become somewhat of a father figure for biofuels in the U.S. Willie even has his own biofuel which combines 20% renewable vegetable-based diesel fuel with 80% traditional diesel, and can be used in almost any diesel engine without modification. The result is a cleaner burning, American-farmed renewable fuel.
"It's important because we are going around the world starting wars over oil, and we don't have to do that," Willie has said. "We can grow our own fuel here at home, help our farmers, help our environment, help the truckers . . . help the local communities."
posted by Michael Tavani @ 7:45 PM |
