North
Miami Enlists Ethos FR® to Reduce City's Carbon
Footprint
City to Use Ethos Fuel Reformulator in All Municipal Vehicles
SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwire - February 14, 2008) - Ethos Environmental, Inc. (OTCBB: ETEV), a San Diego-based company, announced that as a leader of the green effort in South Florida, the City of North Miami has recently decided to make Ethos Fuel Reformulator a part of their environmental plan. Following the results of a standard testing protocol, the decision was made to use Ethos FR® in all of the City of North Miami's municipal vehicles.
Approval came from
Mayor Kevin Burns and City Manager, Clarance
Patterson after the Ethos product performed beyond
expectations in test vehicles.
After treatment with Ethos FR®, the City of North
Miami's test vehicles showed a 12% improvement
in fuel economy, and use of the Ethos product
has been shown to reduce emissions up to 30%
in similar testing. Thus a city the size of North
Miami -- which currently uses approximately 300,000
gallons of fuel per year -- can reduce its harmful
emissions by approximately 500 tons per year
with the use of Ethos FR®.
Mayor Burns has
been an active participant in the City of North
Miami's growing green movement. Last year he
participated in the 2007 Mayors Climate Protection
Summit in Seattle, WA taking part in a panel
on grassroots green initiatives. Burns is also
one of more than 700 mayors who have signed the
U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, committing
to reduce carbon emissions in their locality
to 7% below 1990 levels, a goal in line with
the Kyoto Protocol.
Ethos FR® is an
ester-based fuel reformulating product that reduces
harmful emissions while improving both fuel mileage
and engine performance. Ethos FR®'s ability to
integrate easily with existing fueling infrastructures
makes it both an effective and realistic pro-environmental
step that can be implemented by municipalities
of all sizes.
Prior to the testing
period, Walter Branch of EnviroSafe Enterprises,
a distributor of Ethos Environmental East, met
with the City of North Miami Public Works Director,
Mark E. Collins and Fleet Superintendent, Clifford
Taylor to assess the emission reduction and fuel saving opportunities available with the use of Ethos FR®.
Ethos Environmental
East has been working for over a year with Lee
Mar Building & Construction, a major excavating contractor in Fort Myers, Florida. In partnership with the South Florida Water Management District and Florida Fish & Wildlife Commission, Lee Mar recently completed work on the Lake Okeechobee Project. With the use of Ethos Fuel Reformulator in construction vehicles, Lee Mar experienced fuel savings between 8% and 10%, while opacity testing revealed more than a 30% reduction in pollutants.
Also in Fort Myers,
Ethos Environmental East has been working with
Good Wheels Bus Services to achieve a 10% improvement
in fuel economy with the use of Ethos FR®. Ethos
Environmental East and its representatives are
currently in negotiations with several municipalities
and additional large commercial companies throughout
the State of Florida to improve mileage and reduce
greenhouse gas emissions.
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