Hoover, Alabama, Supports Biofuels
Last Updated: 04/08/2011
Hoover, Alabama, is a town where renewable biofuels reign supreme. Three hundred thousand gallons of E85 are consumed each year by its flex-fuel police vehicles. Hoover also leads the state with 88% of their municipal vehicles using some type of advanced fuel, including biodiesel.
Commercial B20 is used by their public works fleet, but the city also makes its own biodiesel. Since 2007, a recycling program allows residents to drop off their waste vegetable oil for processing. Biodiesel fuels 40 municipal vehicles, including city trolleys.
Tony Petelos, mayor of Hoover, says,"We're collecting about 1,000 gallons a month from 21 small restaurants that don't have a means to dispose of the cooking oil as well as from our residents in the City of Hoover. We convert that into biodiesel." In 2009, Hoover joined a pilot program that converts wood waste and yard debris into E85 ethanol. Clearly, the City of Hoover is making it happen when it comes to biofuels.
