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Subject: Buses running on succotash
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	CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (UPI) -- Buses in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, are running
on succotash as part of a 1 million mile experiment funded by the
soybean industry.
	Bill Hoekstra, the transit director in Cedar Rapids, said the city's
bus fleet is now running on the old pioneer meal blend of corn and
beans.
	The Cedar Rapids bus department and the Linn County LIFTS bus system
for the elderly and handicapped have launched the six month experiment
to test a fuel blended from corn-derived methanol and soybean-based
biodiesel.
	The project is being funded by the Iowa Soybean Promotion Board and
the National Soy-Diesel Development Board to show the methanol-biodiesel
blend can reduce harmful vehicle emissions.
	A successful demonstration could help Iowa farmers through increased
demand for both corn and soybeans.

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