The Essential Purchase You Can Make to Support Local Businesses

Cornell University researchers estimate we make 226.7 decisions each day related to food alone. If we're making that many choices simply about our daily menu, you can just imagine how many decisions come into play regarding finances, household to-dos, and keeping our families safe and happy. Before making such decisions, we must consider factors such as the products we want to purchase and the cost, quality, and level of need for each. We also need to think about the companies we want to support, and whether their philosophies align with our personal goals.

Today, I want to help you understand the average profile of a typical Bioheat® fuel delivery company and what you can expect to receive when you choose them for your home's heating fuel delivery. I'll also touch on how your support of these essential local companies will positively contribute to your community.

Trusted Local Businesses Deliver and Support Bioheat® Fuel

Most Bioheat® fuel providers are small, multigenerational, family-owned businesses that have been serving New York communities for decades. They know what they're doing, and they take pride in performing to the highest standard. You'll often see employees sharing last names because the job responsibilities have been passed down through the generations. Along with the task at hand comes a determination to carry on the family legacy and uphold the security that lifetime customers have come to know and expect.

Bioheat® fuel providers employ local members of your community. The friendly face delivering your fuel or managing your customer account is a member of your township and truly cares about the work they're doing and the residents they're doing it for. Additionally, these companies reward their employees for their high standard of customer care with financial security and well-paying salaries that help them support their families and stimulate the local economy.

You can heat your home with low-carbon Bioheat® fuel that helps reduce emissions and is easier on the environment while enjoying the same excellent service and customized care from local home comfort providers you know and trust. Companies delivering Bioheat® fuel live in, hire from, and operate in the communities they serve. At the end of the day, they want to see you safe and happy. They will do whatever it takes to provide high-caliber customer service to the residents of the community they serve.

These local energy providers are dedicated to delivering excellent products and service to their customers, which is why they have been at the forefront of developing cleaner-burning Bioheat® fuel for years. In 2022, they helped pass a new blending law that requires all heating oil sold by providers in New York to be at least 5% biodiesel blend (B5), Bioheat® fuel. Gradually, proactive plans included in this law will increase biodiesel blend percentages to lower the fuel's carbon content and further reduce emissions, protecting the best interests of their customers, employees, and communities. The blending law will require blends with 10% biodiesel by 2025 and 20% biodiesel by 2030. Local fuel businesses were instrumental in supporting this legislation.

Local fuel providers don't deliver Bioheat® fuel because this law was passed or even to preserve their livelihoods and the livelihoods of their employees, though. They do it because Bioheat® fuel is a low-carbon, environmentally friendly fuel that offers their customers a wide range of other benefits, including possibly extending the life of your heating equipment while minimizing maintenance and service calls. With Bioheat® fuel as the standard for heating oil statewide, local energy companies can continue to provide customers with efficient, affordable, and environmentally friendly fuel.

Bioheat® fuel also supports over 75,000 people in biodiesel industry jobs across the country, from biodiesel producers and fuel providers to livestock producers and restaurant owners. It also generates billions of dollars in gross domestic product (GDP), household income, and tax revenue. Bioheat® fuel is made in part from biodiesel, which in turn is made from various readily available feedstocks produced in the United States, such as soybean and used cooking oil, fats, and tallows. These are all by-products of existing food supply lines that can easily meet increased demand as Bioheat® fuel and biodiesel become more widely used.

Production continues growing to meet the increased demand, created partly because current blends of Bioheat® fuel don't require heating system modifications and can be used in existing fuel systems at no additional cost. Additionally, equipment manufacturers are making sure that their furnaces and boilers can be used with higher blends of Bioheat® fuel when they become available with a simple low-cost modification. Bioheat® fuel users may also enjoy high-efficiency equipment's smoother operation and extended lifespan—all without sacrificing comfort.

Local heating fuel providers in New York will keep offering prompt, dependable Bioheat® fuel delivery across the state. Their customers, in turn, will continue to enjoy the safety, comfort, and convenience of staying warm with traditional heating oil while saving money, reducing carbon emissions, and enjoying the many other advantages Bioheat® fuel offers. Supporting local Bioheat® fuel providers is one of the easiest decisions they'll ever make.

To learn more about Bioheat® fuel and the companies delivering it, visit BetterwithBioheat.com and MyBioheat.com.