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Article: Environment-Friendly Ethanol Debuts at Berkeley Lab: First Dispensing Station in Northern California.
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- July 15, 2004
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Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
BERKELEY, Calif., July 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- With the addition of a 4,000-gallon fuel tank in the motor pool, the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has become the first ethanol dispensing station in Northern California. This cleaner-burning, high-octane, environmentally friendly alternative to gasoline will soon power 60 vehicles in the Laboratory's onsite pool, the largest ethanol-powered fleet in the state.
"By the end of this year, our flex-fuel fleet -- those that are capable of using unleaded fuel and/or ethanol-85 -- will grow to about 75," said Don ...