A bus company in Sao Paulo has geared up to paint South America’s largest city ‘green’! It is powering its 1,900 buses — about a quarter of Sao Paulo’s entire bus fleet — with a new biofuel-n-diesel mix. Hope this effort will not only help curb emissions, but also reduce reliance on fossil fuels.
The new mix is a blend of 30 percent bio-diesel, 8 percent alcohol and 62 percent petroleum diesel. It was developed as part of joint effort between B100 and state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA, known as Petrobras.
Paulo Mendes, director of B100 (created by the Itaim Paulista bus company to research alternative fuels) said,
We are worried about the environmental situation and about Brazil’s dependency on international petroleum.
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