Global "warming" mandate meets global cooling, resulting in bus woes and missed school

Dec '09: Bend-La Pine schools explain school bus cold-fuel woes - KTVZ.com Central Oregons News

Temperature plays a role…

Though our fuel is treated per industry standard protocols and as a precautionary measure is mixed with a 60/40 of #1 diesel and #2 stove oil, the diesel fuel continues to have a ‘gel' point of about -10 degrees.
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On Tuesday we had temperatures of -27 reported at the La Pine Bus Garage. This morning, when we called the two-hour delay, we had a temperature of -9. By 8am the temperature had actually cooled to -14, thus creating gelling issues with our buses and forcing a delayed school cancellation for La Pine and Three Rivers schools.

So what is different this year?

Per a new state of Oregon mandate, we are now using fuels that require a 2% mix of bio fuel. Bio fuels inherently gel at much higher temperatures (warmer air temperature) than petroleum based fuels. Bio fuel is generally a "soy" based product but can contain vegetable oil or even an animal fat derivatives. We have sent a sample of our bio fuel to a lab for testing to see if this may be increasing our gelling point.
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An addition of 2% bio diesel to a batch of poor quality diesel fuel can easily amount to a 10-degree or more loss of cold weather compatibility.
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So why do we cancel or delay school when buses don't run?

In a nutshell, the state requires that we provide transportation for students and all students should be afforded equal opportunity to an educational experience.

By the way, I personally waited in vain today in -12 F cold for a school bus that never arrived.  Many other Minnesotans shared similar real-world experiences today, which are not at all helpful to fraudsters pitching runaway global warming.