Interesting. I wasn’t aware that whale oil had a lower greenhouse gas footprint. What is the reason for that?
It’s funny that cartoons after Drake’s oil well in Pennsylvania showed whales celebrating, as the “oil crisis” of the time was “what are we going to do when we run out of whales?”...something that was coming up rapidly upon them. Thank goodness we had some easy-to-exploit petroleum deposits...I wish we had some nice easy ones left!
Emissions from burning whale oil are OK because whale oil (like biodiesel )is a natural substance. Its kinda like humans exhaling CO2...they don't seem to mind those emissions either.