Thread: Biodiesel/fuel

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I was more interested in using biofuel for home heating oil. We've already cut back to only using our G6 for transportation,my other cars sit. I use maybe 7 gallons of gas for mowing the lawn, so my major expense is the roughly 900 gal. of fuel for heat, and that's with a new high effiency boiler. Last years oil cost about $2700 and the projected price for this year is well over $ 4000.This kind of money means heat or eat,but not both. The whole point to this is that if I have to go broke buying fuel, I'd rather do it by purchasing something that could help the economy and not further screw things up with petroleum. Now if we take all diesel vehicles, and homes burning oil and supplied them with bio,how many barrels of oil would be saved for use where there is no substitute as of yet? I believe it would reduce the need to import by half if not more. Try and remember that the amount of petroleum in the world is finite,sooner or later it will be gone. Bio on the other hand is not, it is an entirely renewable source. I really wish I had the wherewithal to get into this business,as I think there is a very lucrative future in it. Hank

Around here a lot of people are switching to pellet stoves. Just $2-$3 a day to heat a pretty good sized house.

Pellet stoves are nice, but the ones I've seen need electricity to run the auger. Friends of mine swear by theirs, but also almost froze a few years ago when they lost power for a week during the winter. Always good to have a back up generator, or other heat source!
Nice thing about pellets is they don't make much mess, easy cleanup, and they burn very clean too and as stated above are cheap to run.

We live in one of the first houses built in our town, and were a bit supprised to find out we couldn't put in a wood burning stove. It seems the old wood stoves were removed long ago, and then replaced with furnaces to heat the house. Because of clean air laws, new homes here aren't allowed wood burning stoves! Yet the 70's and 80's track homes here all have them! Go figure, our place was built in 1858!

Halftanked wrote:

Last years oil cost about $2700 and the projected price for this year is well over $ 4000.

I would recommend moving to Florida and forget about a heat source. Plenty warm there year around and you'll only need an electric heater about 5 times a year. Lots of places for sale now due to the high percentage of foreclosures (one of the top 10 places in the country).

Unfortunately, what you save on heating costs, you'll likely pay out in home insurance (maybe even more)

But you will have car cruises someplace every week to occupy your time.

I spent more cooling my house in Texas than I spend heating my house in S.D.
I will be going to a pellet stove. We have locally made ones so they are cheap. Also an extra couple hundred bucks with get you a battery backup for outages. Those longer ones would required a way to charge the battery(s)

Hold on a few more years...according to Algore, New York will be a balmy tropical place very soon.

It must be true, I read it on the internet!