October 22, 2008
GOODYEAR, AZ – Goodyear’s vehicle fleet can finally go green. The city is looking to buy a special pump and storage tank to fill up its flex-fuel vehicles after receiving a $91,000 grant.
Tags: City of Goodyear, E-85, grant
SAINT PAUL, MN – More Minnesota state employees are heeding Governor Pawlenty’s call to reduce petroleum fuel consumption and use cleaner-burning alternative fuels like E-85 in state vehicles whenever possible.
Tags: E-85, Minnesota
September 3, 2008
MARYLAND – Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley has announced plans to build ethanol pump stations around Maryland so the state’s 1,200 flex-fuel vehicles can more easily fill up with the renewable fuel,
Tags: E-85, State of Maryland
July 23, 2008
BISMARCK, N.D. – The director of North Dakota’s state fleet, Paul Hanson, has said that at the halfway point of the biennium, half his budget remains.
Tags: E-85, North Dakota’s state fleet, Paul Hanson
July 2, 2008
LINCOLN, NE – Nebraska plans to buy dozens more flex-fuel vehicles that can run on fuel that is 85 percent ethanol.
Tags: E-85, Flex fuel, Nebraska
June 4, 2008
WASHINGTON - A new fleet of off road vehicles in the U.S. Air Force will operate on E-85 fuel.
Tags: E-85, MAG, U.S. Air Force
INDIANAPOLIS – Despite a drive to become a leading ethanol producer, Indiana’s state government lags neighboring states in purchasing vehicles that can run on E-85.
Tags: E-85, flex-fuel vehicles
May 7, 2008
ATLANTA – Gwinnett County currently closed bidding on a proposed fuel contract for 1.6 million gallons of E-10 and E-85 ethanol blends.
Tags: Gwinnett County , E-85, ethanol
April 9, 2008
WASHINGTON – With the average nationwide price at the pump hitting $3.26 a gallon, Montgomery County is reminding the public that there are cheaper alternatives available for those driving flexible fuel or compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles.
Tags: alternative fuel, CNG, E-85, fueling stations, green fleets, Montgomery County
April 2, 2008
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD – Montgomery County’s Division of Fleet Management Services is attempting to get the word out to the public about their alternative fueling station for flexible fueling vehicles located at 16640 Crabbs Branch Way in Rockville.
Tags: alternative fueling station , CNG, E-85, Montgomery County
FLORENCE, AL – City vehicles and equipment that use diesel fuel may soon smell more like home cooking as Florence explores an initiative to take residential cooking oil away from clogging the city’s sewers and recycle it into biodiesel.
Tags: biodiesel, City of Florence, E-85, green fleets, The City of Hoover
February 13, 2008
ST. PAUL, MN – Minnesota state agencies more than doubled their use of E-85 last year, purchasing 412,500 gallons of E-85 from retailers, nearly a 250 percent increase over the 165,500 gallons purchased in 2006.
Tags: E-85, Flex fuel, Minnesota
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