ORLANDO -- LYNX is going green and making history in the process.
The agency will soon become the first mass-transit agency in the country to use its own blended bio-diesel as an alternative to regular fuel.
The move is being made possible by a $2.5 million dollar state grant that will be used to convert all of the agency's buses to the new fuel.
Officials said using the alternative fuel will allow Lynx to use 1.2 million fewer gallons of diesel fuel a year and meet Gov. Charlie Crist's call for a 10 percent reduction of greenhouse gases by 2012.
The blending process is expected to start in 2009. It will produce a fuel that is 80 percent petroleum-based diesel and 20 percent from plant-derived oils.
The blending station will serve the diesel fleets from Orange County and the Orlando Utilities Commission.
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