Press Release - Starving Students Helps to Move the Needle on America’s Dependence on Foreign Oil

Starving Students Helps to Move the Needle on America’s Dependence on Foreign Oil

San Francisco, July 24, 2006: Starving Students, the nation’s leading local moving company, is fueling its San Francisco fleet with alternative biodiesel fuel. Biodiesel is a domestically produced, renewable fuel, derived from natural oils such as soybean. Widespread use of biodiesel would dramatically reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil. Biodiesel is also a very environmentally friendly alternative to petroleum because it is free of sulfur and aromatics, and biodiesel emissions produce 50% less ozone forming smog.[1] Biodiesel is less toxic than table salt and biodegrades as fast as sugar.

Starving Students is in its 34th year of operation and in 2006 will move 56,000 families into new homes. To do this, its fleet of 250 moving trucks will consume 400,000 gallons of gas. The company decided to test using biodiesel in the Bay Area because it felt its customers there truly appreciate companies that consider the environment in their decision-making.

“Our dependence on foreign oil seems to get us into a lot of trouble these days,” says Bear Barnes, CEO of Starving Students. “And as the father of three small children, it feels really good to do our part to support a technology that could have a lasting effect on the environment.”

The transition to fueling with biodiesel was made easy for Starving Students because biodiesel can be used in unmodified diesel engines. Starving Students’ San Francisco branch did little except change where they bought their fuel. “Yes, it costs a little more,” says Barnes, “but as petroleum prices rise, and more companies adopt biodiesel the difference will get smaller and smaller.”


For more information about this press release, please contact Megan Long (800) 441-6683.
For more information about biodiesel fuel, please visit http://www.biodiesel.org/.
[1] www.biodiesel.org