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Service station sells biodiesel
WEST YELLOWSTONE (AP) – The first pump in Montana to offer travelers a fuel made in part from fats or oils is now open on the outskirts of Yellowstone National Park.
Associated Press Billings Gazette
Biodiesel, already used by the park in a few hundred of its vehicles and other equipment, is being sold at an Econo-Mart in the popular park gateway of West Yellowstone. The blend is 10 percent biodiesel and 90 percent diesel, officials said.
"Visitors and local residents here care about the environment," station manager Travis Watt said Tuesday, adding that biodiesel is cleaner-burning and produced domestically.
Use of alternative fuels is one component of a long-range plan, dubbed "The Greening of Yellowstone," that officials are following to help preserve the world’s first national park. Officials are gradually introducing the plan’s initiatives, such as recycling, to the millions of park visitors.
Jim Evanoff, a management assistant involved in the plan, said visitors often ask him where they can get the fuel.
"All we’re doing is reacting to the ways the visitors and the public at large tells us we should be acting," Evanoff said.
The park is planning to make biodiesel available to visitors as early as next spring, officials said. The park already is offering an ethanol blend at public fueling stations.
Watt’s station has been selling the biodiesel blend since late September.
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