Government Fleet Magazine has ranked the City of Colorado Springs as the top municipal bio-diesel fleet in the nation. The magazine also named the City number 17 in the overall Public Sector Alternative-Fueled Fleet rankings. The City of Colorado Springs Fleet Division manages vehicles for the city's enterprises, including Colorado Springs Utilities. Bio-diesel is an alternative fuel produced from domestic, renewable resources including soybean, canola, sunflower, and cottonseed oils and animal fats. The most common bio-diesel blend is B20 – 20 percent bio-diesel and 80 percent conventional diesel fuel. Since 2003, more than 2,400 city vehicles or equipment have run on bio-diesel. To date, the City has used a total of 1,584,000 gallons of B20 bio-diesel. This is the equivalent of more than 5,000,000 pounds of carbon dioxide not making it into the atmosphere, or 491 passenger cars not driving for one year. In 2007, the city introduced our first Ethanol 85, or E-85, pump to our fleet program. E-85 is comprised of 85 percent
ethanol and 15 percent gasoline. Ethanol burns cleaner than gasoline and is a completely renewable fuel.
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