Lord help us! I pray you guys who use that fuel have a mild winter.
I’ll have to call my supplier. I wonder if this is in Ohio yet? We installed a wood burning furnace, but it sure is nice to have the heating oil furnace kick on in the middle of the night when I don’t want to go downstairs and throw another log on. Also, we set our furnace at about 55 degrees when we’re out of town in the winter. I guess it wouldn’t affect us very much, but still it’s a pisser.
My sis has propane. Bills are outrageous. And, don’t worry, they’ll come after propane somehow.
Leave it to the lib whackos to stick it to people once again. But, so far, here in PA we still get the ole #2 oil.
I would be interested in knowing if the bio-oil has the same environmental profile as does oil. Meaning, does it become sluggish and chunky at low temperatures, thus is unable to travel via gravity to your furnance? I have heard of similar problems with bio-oils in other applications. No fun buying a couple of hundred gallons of fuel only to find out it must be heated to remain liquid. It would be really unfortunate for MA residents to wake up freezing with a full fuel tank on the side yard.
Veggie oil is good for making bio diesel, but I’m glad I don’t have to run my home on it. Wood keeps my house as warm as I can stand it.
If it’s that much denser and gives less energy does it deposit grud in the burner?
If it gives less energy then you’ll burn more to get a given amount of heat to your home.
Oh boy....I see theses guys have already started.
Are there others?
http://www.greenerwattsnewengland.com/oil.bio.html
I have an outside tank and have to use anti-gel conditioner and a heat strip already in real cold weather...I can just see going to the tank with an ice pick and pail with this stuff.
Maybe I can say I’m a vegetarian and it’s against my religion to use grease-animal fats;)
A gallon of ethanol has 60% of the BTUs of a gallon of gasoline, but the price is the same.
Well, it’s you who have money... And they have an “oil” for you to sell.
“Starting this year I believe, Massachusetts is changing over from standard home heating oil to something they call “bio-oil”
You believe, or is it fact?
Or do you just want to get people all riled up over nothing?
“Bio-oil does not naturally blend with conventional petroleum fuel.”
http://www.nrbp.org/pdfs/pub34.pdf
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/biomass/pdfs/34534.pdf