CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- They aren't there yet, but the majority of Kanawha County's governmental agencies could be using biodiesel fuel within the next year or so.
"We're in the process of polling all the agencies that we deal with and seeing what they think about biodiesel," said Denny Dawson, general manager of the Kanawha Valley Regional Transportation Authority.
KRT, which runs the county bus system, also supplies bulk fuel for the Kanawha County Emergency Ambulance Authority, the Kanawha County Sheriff's Department, the Charleston Sanitary Board and most police and fire departments in the county. Dawson said KRT officials buy about 800,000 gallons of diesel fuel and 500,000 gallons of gasoline a year.
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