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Unfortunately, until biodiesel is widely available for home heating as well as automotive applications, we're all slaves to oil. A company near me has begun to offer biodiesel blended with regular heating oil at the same price as 100% petroleum-based oil due to tax incentives, and the owner has stated that he's saving on operating costs to the point that he may be able to offer biodiesel at lower prices than standard oil in a few years. I'm looking at switching, and the projection is to be using a 50/50 blend of the two instead of the current 5% biodiesel mixture within 5 years.
Imagine the reduction in city pollution and transportation costs if mass transit fleets could switch to biodiesel-electric hybrid vehicles (locally, we already have one hybrid bus that costs less to operate and maintain than a standard bus.) I hope it will be a reality sooner than we expect.
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