{"id":844,"date":"2019-03-18T17:08:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T17:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preferred-mfg.com\/blog\/?p=844"},"modified":"2019-03-18T17:08:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T17:08:16","slug":"pros-of-burning-oil-as-a-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/pros-of-burning-oil-as-a-fuel\/","title":{"rendered":"Pros of Burning Oil as a Fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>NOx in Heating oil is significantly reduced: heating oil can contain less than 15 parts per million of sulfer. That is a 200-fold decrease in sulfer since 2014.<\/li>\n<li>Heating oil is a partially renewable fuel: more and more heating oils contain 2% &#8211; 5% plant derived biofuel, and likely to increase over time. Biofuel is a renewable energy source which also helps heating oil burn more completely while also helping your oil tank stay clean and free of sediment.<\/li>\n<li>Heating oil is safer than natural gas: on Sept. 13, 2018, old natural gas lines ruptured in an area of north of Boston, Mass, causing a series of explosions and fires damaging 40 homes and causing the death of a teenage boy. Gas service to more than 8000 homes was shut off, and some homes were without central heating more than a month later. This not an isolated incident \u2013 there are an estimated 23-26 gas explosions with 5-8 fatalities that happen across the country every year. (https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-massachusetts-explosions-factbox\/factbox-gas-distribution-line-related-accidents-in-the-united-states-idUSKCN1LU05A)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOx in Heating oil is significantly reduced: heating oil can contain less than 15 parts per million of sulfer. That is a 200-fold decrease in sulfer since 2014. Heating oil is a partially renewable fuel: more and more heating oils contain 2% &#8211; 5% plant derived biofuel, and likely to increase over time. Biofuel is a renewable energy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions\/845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}