Bioheat fires up in area homes (NH)

http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071202/NEWS/712020353

A blend of conventional home heating oil with a clean-burning biofuel has some Seacoast homeowners staying warm this winter and feeling good about it too.

"I'm always looking for ways to reduce carbon emissions, so I'm thrilled there's another option," said Sarah Brown of Kittery, Maine.

The mother of three has taken steps to reduce her carbon footprint — changing lightbulbs, nudging the thermostat lower and hanging clothes to dry. She took her first delivery of a B20 blend — 80 percent No. 2 heating oil and 20 percent biodiesel — from Simply Green Biofuels last spring.

No modifications are necessary to burn up to 20 percent blends in a standard heating system.

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Why does this news make me want to vomit? Of all the options available for keeping homes warm why pick the one that makes the global food situation worse while enriching industrial agri-corporations?

all biodiesel comes from food products which would otherwise feed the hungry. Here in my hometown, local restaurants donate used oil which is filtered and delivered to low-income residents. They get it by agreeing to do some commnity service for the city. They pay nothing out of pocket. What was once considered a waste product is now being used to heat peoples homes who might otherwise not have enough $$$ to pay for it.

Especially now we're running out of fish to fry...

is not coming out of deep fryers. Biodiesel made from used fryer oil is a cool cultural trinket, but this is a business just like the ethanol being poured into cars across the overdeveloped world.

> Of all the options available for keeping homes warm why pick the one
> that makes the global food situation worse while enriching industrial
> agri-corporations?

Because the rich industrial agri-corporations have the money to market
their greenwashed crap to Joe/Jo Public (who is *finally* starting to
catch on).

Criminal in two ways but the chance of being caught? Zero.