Many people these days are looking into making their own biodiesel. But for five years now, Michael and Lee Ann Conway have been heating their home with a biodiesel blend, regular home heating oil mixed with the grease and oil from restaurant fryolators and other cooking appliances.
“Every gallon that goes into Mike’s house is a gallon that did not have to be pumped in from the Middle East, the revenue isn’t going to support countries that don’t much care for us and put us on the losing end of the biggest wealth transfer in history”, said U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse.
The Conways are the end users of a circle of Rhode Island commerce that spawned a new company, Newport Biodiesel, which employs five people, that provides Cumberland’s T.H. Malloy Biodiesel and Heat with a dependable supply of fuels to distribute to customers and use in their own trucks, and relieves restaurants of their waste grease and oil.
Senator Whitehouse paid a visit to the Conways Monday to highlight the virtues of the locally generated biodiesel fuel. Whitehouse said Congress has passed tax credits and other benefits for blended fuels as well as renewable energy tax credits. “There’s a whole variety of support that Congress has created and there is further support now being considered at the state level.”
Jim Malloy of the Malloy fuel distributorship says his company’s fleet of 17 trucks have travelled about 1.7 million miles since they started filling up with biofuel in 2004.
Any diesel engine or oil furnace can run on biodiesel with little or no modifications.
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