To purchase biodiesel for your diesel vehicles, generators, boats, and construction equipment. We also sell bioheating oil for your building, and offer NYC's #1 cooking oil recycling service for your restaurant. 

 

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As Tri-State Biodiesel continues to grow and expand, we are hiring for both sales and driving positions.  To learn more about these positions please go to:

 

http://tristatebiodiesel.com/career.htm.

 

Please send resumes and cover letters to info@tristatebiodiesel.  And thanks for your interest in helping to make a cleaner NYC!

Dear Friends of TSB,

Tri-State Biodiesel is working hard to increase the usage of biodiesel in NYC.  Although all of our biodiesel is made from waste cooking oil collected from local restaurants, we are also dependent on a national biodiesel industry that uses soy, canola, and other crops along with waste cooking oil and waste animal fats to produce biodiesel. Recently, we received word of a pressing obstacle that is threatening the survival of biodiesel and future opportunities for sustainability.  Please read the forwarded message below and get involved in supporting the best options available for sustainable replacement of diesel fuel and heating oil.

-The TSB team.

At the end of 2007, we were all encouraged when Congress passed a Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) in order to wean the US off foreign oil and spur domestic economic growth through biofuels. However, EPA recently made a change to the RFS that threatens to wipe out the US biodiesel industry – biodiesel made from plant oils will be excluded from the RFS. This exclusion harms not only the users of sustainable plant oils, but the entire industry – it will have a devastating impact on the environment, energy independence, and our economy.

The EPA has attempted to model something called “indirect land use change” – projected greenhouse gas emissions from actions that may be indirectly related to industry actions. Under this hypothesis, changes in demand for soybean oil in the US could impact markets for other crops in other countries, setting in motion a complicated chain of events that could eventually result in a farmer in a developing country clearing forested land for agriculture. EPA’s methodology has several crucial flaws:

• The science of indirect impacts is not currently developed. In its place, EPA has attempted to combine multiple models together to produce results. These models were never designed to be combined. When the output of one model is used as the input for the next, margins of error are multiplied and the final results are not reliable.

• Actual data disproves the theory. For example, when US biodiesel production increased exponentially between 2004-2008, soybean acreage in the Amazon decreased by 1.5 million hectares.

• Many of the inputs EPA is using for these models are inaccurate or obsolete. For example, EPA penalized soy for nitrogen emissions, when in fact soy actually fixes nitrogen and REDUCES emissions (confirmed by the International Panel on Climate Change).

• Under EPA’s assessment, the petroleum industry is not held accountable for comparable indirect impacts. If EPA is seeking to accurately compare biodiesel to petroleum, it is common sense to compare apples to apples.

• Tropical deforestation existed well before there ever was a biodiesel industry. The quickest, most effective way to end this practice is to address its direct causes (such as logging). Looking to weakly-linked indirect actions thousands of miles away is not an effective or logical solution for change.

• Thousands of jobs and businesses are dependent on the biodiesel industry. Sacrificing these for overseas actions Americans have no control over is unprecedented and irrational.

More at www.biodiesel.org/news/RFS/

We ask you now, dear friends, to help save the biodiesel industry and our drive toward economic development, energy independence, and climate change mitigation. Click here to send an email to the EPA to support biodiesel!

Please consider forwarding this to friends and colleagues. If you are part of a clean cities coalition or similar organization, please share this. While this matter appears to not directly impact recycled grease-based biodiesel, in reality it hinders the advancement of the entire industry.

Thank you for your support as we strive for a sustainable NYC.