"The latest on the soy biodiesel bandwagon is Purdue University, which announced Tuesday that it is now using the alternative, cleaner-burning fuel in more than 80 Purdue buses, fire trucks, dump trucks and other motor vehicles..."WLFI/Lafayette has a related article, and the Lafayette Journal and Courier has much more extensive coverage.
"Purdue joins more than 20 other Hoosier schools and municipalities in switching its fuel source to biodiesel, a blend of petroleum diesel and fuel refined from soybean oil..."
"Indiana is home to about 25 biodiesel public pumps and a dozen retailers sell biodiesel through tank-wagon and transport delivery, said Mike Yoder, an Elkhart County soybean farmer who is a director on the Indiana Soybean Board."
News and information about Biodiesel & alternative fuels.
2004/03/26
Indiana & Purdue University
The Indianapolis Star has some good factoids about biodiesel use in Indiana: