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WHMP's Mary Serreze reports on the ReEnergizer company in Holyoke, which collects waste vegetable oil and refines it, using the end product to replace petroleum in vehicles, industrial machinery, and heating systems that burn oil.
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To learn more about heating with vegetable oil, call Sandri’s Clean Burn division or visit their website
ReEnergizer produces fuel from plants for your use, including from used cooking oil collected from restaurants throughout the region.
Whether you believe in global warming a little or a lot, and love engines that make things go really fast (we do),or would rather ride a bike (we do that too). It makes sense for all of us to do what we can to use more fuel made from plants.
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Here’s why we should try to use fuel made from plants:
- Plant-based fuels provide clean, green energy. Growing the energy fuels we use means no net gain of carbon dioxide, the main cause of global warming. Extracting fuel from below ground releases otherwise inert carbon dioxide and other pollutants into the atmosphere.
- Plant fuels are renewable resources. Harvesting fuel we grow is sustainable and the renewal cycle is quick, often several harvests a year. Fossil fuels take millions of years to become fuel. We can’t grow any more of it and it’s becoming ever-more scarce.
- Only 30% of America’s energy needs are met by resources in North America. Do we need fuel? You bet, but our soldiers need not fight for it in hostile foreign territory! Growing as much as we can will help achieve security at home and still keep our engines running.
- Harvesting energy fuel from plants beats sucking or ripping it from beneath the earth’s surface. Sowing seeds, tilling the soil and harvesting the oil-seed crops won’t leave behind oil spills devastated strip mined landscapes, trapped miners or collapsed mines.
