What steps has Hart & Iliff taken to make heating oil more environmentally friendly?
Hart & Iliff has distributed Ultrablend Heating Oil for more than 10 years. Ultrablend contains inhibitors, stabilizers, detergents, dispersants and an EPA-approved microbiocide. These additives keep your fuel system clean so your equipment can run at peak efficiency, thereby saving energy and reducing pollution. In addition, as discussed in an earlier edition of Comfort Line, Hart & Iliff is a test site for a revolutionary type of biofuel marketed under the name renewable fuel. Renewable fuel is superior to standard biofuels because it is made from waste materials that would normally end up in a landfill, rather than soybeans and other agricultural products. In addition, renewable fuel has much better winter blending properties, since it has a pour point of -65F, compared to +35F for biofuel. Testing is generally going well. However, before these products are widely distributed, changes will need to be made to current heating equipment, since both biofuel and renewable fuel have compa
