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First School System to Use Biodiesel Celebrated
Published Thursday, October 16, 2008 at 04:55 AM
It’s been ten years since Joe Biluck took a leap of faith and filled a school bus with a blend of what was then a little-known fuel called biodiesel. Biluck is Director of Operations and Technology for the Medford Township Board of Education in New Jersey. On Wednesday, the school district celebrated that chance to provide cleaner air to its 35-hundred students with a commemorative event and educational session celebrating ten years of using B20, a 20 percent blend of biodiesel.

Biluck admits – I was a little scared that first time. But, he said, when you see an opportunity or a technology that has a lot of potential, and you’ve done your homework on it, you have to be willing to take a calculated risk for the greater good.

According to Medford Township Public School System officials, over the past decade the district's school buses have traveled more than 4-million miles, consumed more than 615-thousand gallons of B20, displaced more than 123-thousand gallons of diesel fuel, and eliminated 127-thousand pounds of hazardous emissions and 428 pounds of particulate matter - while reducing the overall cost of fleet operations by 80-thousand dollars a year.

It is estimated that approximately 200 school districts in the United States now use biodiesel.

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