Biodiesel Supplier Cheers Biodiesel Heating Oil at Earth Day Event
Brent Baker, CEO and founder of Tri-State Biodiesel in New York City, spoke about biodiesel at an Earth Day event on Thursday. (image: tristatebiodiesel.com)
Brent Baker is the CEO of Tri-State Biodiesel, a New York City company that processes and sells wholesale biodiesel made from used cooking oil as fuel for home heating and transportation. As one of the largest biodiesel suppliers in the Northeast, Tri-State Biodiesel is on the front lines of the movement to bring the green fuel to more heating oil users in the region. Baker has become perhaps the best-known public face of biodiesel—he’s been interviewed by numerous news outlets and was prominently featured in the green energy documentary Fuel.
Baker spoke at an event in New York’s Central Park on Thursday about his company’s use of biodiesel to power its own fleet of trucks, which collect cooking oil and deliver biodiesel. The event was organized by New York City and Lower Hudson Valley Clean Communities in observance of Earth Day (April 22), and was billed as a “Bio-Diesel Workshop.” HeatingOil.com caught up with Baker outside the Central Park Zoo Gallery for a brief video interview on the state of biodiesel today, its future, and its place in the burners and boilers of heating oil users.
Baker voiced his support for wider use of B20 biodiesel (a blend of 20 pure biodiesel with 80 percent traditional petroleum diesel or heating oil), and emphasized its excellent performance in both vehicle engines and oil-fired heating systems. He also discussed the positive effects of increased biodiesel use in heating oil systems, touching on the fact that large buildings that burn dirty no. 4 and no. 6 heating oils (also known as residual fuels) make up a major source of New York City’s air pollution.
Watch a short video of Baker’s comments below or on the HeatingOil.com YouTube channel and learn more about biodiesel heating oil in the HeatingOil.com education section and the biofuels category of the blog section.
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