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ALTERNATIVE FUEL * USA - Flex-fuel fleet flusters feds
Lack of ethanol pumps, vehicles' larger engines sidetrack pricey efforts to promote less use of gas
Washington,DC,USA -The Washington Post, by Kimberly Kindy & Dan Keating /The Detroit News -November 28, 2008: -- The federal government has invested billions of dollars over the past 16 years, building a fleet of 112,000 alternative-fuel vehicles to serve as a model for a national movement away from fossil fuels.
But the costly effort to put more workers into vehicles powered by ethanol and other fuel alternatives has been fraught with problems, many of them caused by buying vehicles before fuel stations were in place to support them, a Washington Post analysis of federal records shows... Under a mandate from Congress, federal agencies have gradually increased their fleets of alternative-fuel vehicles, a majority of them "flex-fuel," capable of running on either gasoline or ethanol-based E85 fuel. But many of the vehicles were sent to locations hundreds of miles from any alternative fueling sites, the analysis shows... As a result, more than 92 percent of the fuel used in the government's alternative-fuel fleet continues to be standard gasoline. A new law -- meant to align the vehicles with alternative-fuel stations -- now requires agencies to seek waivers when their fleet is more than five miles or 15 minutes from an ethanol pump...
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