Biodiesel is a renewable fuel that can be made from vegetable oils, recycled greases or animal fat. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), biodiesel blends can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and can help reduce vehicle emissions. Most diesel engine manufacturers approve using up to 5% biodiesel.[image-nocss]
Biodiesel blends are available at six service plazas on the New Jersey Turnpike and five service plazas on the Garden State Parkway.
Sunoco said in January that it reached an agreement with the New Jersey Turnpike Authority and Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc. to begin operating the nine fuel stations at service plazas along the Garden State Parkway, one of the most heavily traveled roads in the nation. The new six-year agreement begins January 2011 and runs through December 2016.
In addition to the Garden State Parkway agreement, Sunoco currently provides fuel along several other major toll roads, including the Atlantic City Expressway, Delaware Turnpike, Maryland Turnpike, New Jersey Turnpike, New York Thruway, and Ohio Turnpike, Palisades Parkway and Pennsylvania Turnpike.
(Click here for previous CSP Daily News coverage.)The company supports the development of sustainable biofuels as a way to increase fuel supply in the United States.
Philadelphia-based Sunoco is a leading transportation fuel provider, with operations located primarily in the East Coast and Midwest regions of the United States. The company operates more than 4,800 branded retail locations that market transportation fuels and convenience store merchandise in 23 states. This retail network is principally supplied by Sunoco-owned refineries with a combined crude oil processing capacity of 675,000 barrels per day. Sunoco is also the General Partner and has a 31% interest in Sunoco Logistics Partners LP, a publicly traded master limited partnership which owns and operates 7,600 miles of refined product and crude oil pipelines and approximately 40 active product terminals. Many of Sunoco Logistics' pipelines and terminals and storage facilities are integrated with Sunoco's retail network and refineries.
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