Key Points
- Heating represents a third of our energy use in this country
- Renewable solutions are supported in electricity and transportation
- We are overlooking one third of our energy use in current public policy.
- Heating with biomass fuels is effective. Doing so:
- Eliminates 75% of the carbon emissions associated with fossil fuel heating
- Has roughly three times the impact of driving a hybrid car (per household)
- Displaces twice as much imported oil as ethanol (per unit of biomass)
- Heating with biomass fuels is practical. Biomass heating solutions:
- Are affordable, with nearly a million homeowners doing so today
- Are sustainable, with ample raw material resources to allow us to displace a significant fraction of our nation's oil imports
- Have no technical barriers, with equipment readily available on the market
- Have been demonstrated to benefit from subsidies, as has been seen in Germany, Sweden and throughout Europe
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