Biodiesel growing fast for home heating
11 November 2005Everyone was busy watching biodiesel grow as a fuel for diesel powered vehicles and while their attention was diverted, the fuel was growing rapidly as a substitute for home heating oil, too. When we mentioned the new biodiesel injection blending facility in Pennsylvania the other day, it was interesting that the first load of fuel leaving the plant was for BioHeat, home heating fuel.
BioHeat has several advantages over conventional heating oil: The fuel burns cleaner and releases fewer harmful emissions, and it relies on domestic sources of renewable energy — mostly soybeans. That means BioHeat is less harmful to the environment and reduces national dependence on foreign oil. Switching all heating-oil customers to 5-percent biodiesel could reduce oil consumption by more than 330 million gallons a year; changing to 100-percent biodiesel (B100) would decrease it by 6.7 billion gallons a year.
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