Bio-Heat not the game changer it says that it is.
Well it seems to be a rehashing of my old blog topics this time it is about the so called green revolution that is occurring…
When I was thinking about what to write in the blog tonight during dinner a commercial came on TV and I thought “no way this is perfect!” I was very excited because I was watching a commercial for a company called Bio-Heat and in their ad they described that their company offers a revolutionary new environmentally friendly way to heat your home and that is with biodiesel. I was dumbfounded. Could finally a corporation be listening to everything that we learn in GRS and LFS and come up with an entirely sustainable heating source. The ad went on to describe how sustainable and renewable it was, it would create jobs for Americans (it was an American station I was watching) and reduce dependency on foreign oil all while recycling this waste product and turning it into something useful. The ad was very expensive looking and professional and after learning that they were operating in several states on the east coast and expanding I came upstairs right now to look them up.
This is directly from their website “Bioheat® is traditional home heating oil blended with Biodiesel. To understand what makes Bioheat® the cleaner and renewable home heating oil for now and the future, it’s important to understand the basics about Biodiesel.” Now get ready to be as disappointed as am currently am because this is under the information section “How much biodiesel is blended with heating oil to make Bioheat®? Bioheat® blends usually range between 2% and 5%” Wait what? You just got me all excited about watching your ad about saving the environment with a sustainable heat source and you are actually only using 2-5% of it in your product! I am both disappointed and angry at this, it is merely another way to trick the environmentally conscious consumer that they have a planet saving solution when in fact they are nothing more than another oil company who drips a bit of biodiesel into their product and labels it as a planet saver. This really is a lesson for all of us that we need to actually check on these claims and not just buy into something blindly because it is labelled as green.