Kudos to my Town

Tucson is doing something to help us be less dependent on fossil fuels! Granted, it's a small first step, 20% of the city's buses will be burning fuel that's 20% biodiesel and 80% diesel, but it is a step in the right direction. I, for my part, have gone back to communting to and from work on my bicycle. I parked my motor scooter which gets 60 -65 MPG in order to burn less over-priced fuel in favor of burning superfluous fat.
"Officials say the new buses, which will replace about 20 percent of Sun Tran's older buses, also will help reduce air pollution in Tucson. They're the first in the Sun Tran fleet designed to burn biodiesel, a type of diesel that can be manufactured from vegetable oil, animal fats or recycled restaurant greases."
The media types (probably at the behest of "Big Oil") often denigrate the value of the different alternative fuels by arguing that a major overhaul of our infrastructure, that's made for the internal combustion engine, would be too costly, especially since solar and the other alternatives aren't capable of replacing fossil fuels. They're right, of course, in saying that no one alternative can cost-effectively replace petroleum products, yet. But conservation and a combination of different little changes can add up to a big change in our dependence on foreign oil.