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Recently-circulated reports of a ban on the sale of bio-diesel in California are not true, according to Dave Williamson of the Ecology Center in Berkeley. 

  Williamson, Recycling Operations Manager for the Ecology Center, said that despite efforts by both the Engine Manufacturers Association and ChevronTexaco Corporation to put roadblocks in the bio-diesel fuel regulation process, the California Department of Weights and Measures has opted only to regulate the fuel more thoroughly, not ban it outright.   

  In Berkeley, the entire public works fleet of diesel vehicles runs on bio-diesel. That includes fire trucks, school busses, recycling trucks and solid waste trucks. Williamson said that even if there were a state ban on the sale of bio-diesell fuel to consumers, Berkeley would be exempt because the city is classified as a fleet and not a consumer.  

—Jakob Schiller