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A commercial airplane can burn a few gallons of fuel per mile.
âItâs very hard to bring the huge engines to run on other things when they carry that much weight,â Fred Felleman, Port of Seattle Commission President, said.
Fuel is a big polluter of the environment, and the aviation industry uses a lot of it.
âAs a modern society, weâre particularly good at producing trash,â Felleman said.
He said they are working on getting away from petroleum-based fuel products to pursue fuels made with feedstock or grease and waste oils.