In November 2011, Alaska Airlines started commercial flights with biofuel-pow­ered engines between Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon. Alaska and its sister carrier, Horizon Air, are operating 75 select flights between Seattle and the two cities using a 20% blend of sustainable biofuel made from used cooking oil.

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If the company powered all of its flights with a 20% biofuel blend for 1 year, the annual emissions savings would represent the equivalent of taking nearly 64 000 cars off the road or providing electricity to 28 000 homes (www. alaskaair. com/ newsroom).

Alaska Air Group purchased the fuel through SkyNRG — an aviation biofuels broker in Amsterdam. The biofuel was made by Dynamic Fuels at its facility in Geismar, Louisiana. To the biofuel industry Alaska Airlines says: if you build it, we will buy it.

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