Thursday, April 28, 2011

Phasing out dirty oil to take a long time

From Metro:

Black smoke will still billow out of apartment buildings and into the city’s air — even with new laws phasing out pollutants.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg passed regulations for the city’s buildings Thursday, requiring owners to switch to cleaner heating oils.

But the ban on the two worst heating oils — which health experts say cause pollution and health problems like asthma — will not completely take effect until 2030.

Starting immediately, owners will be denied a permit to heat their building unless they use natural gas, or step down to a less sulfuric heating oil, such as No. 2.

Building owners will have until 2015 to stop using the most noxious heating oil, No. 6.

But building owners still have until 2030 to keep burning No. 4.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

we paid $0.30 per gallon for heating oil and gasoline in 1974. while carter was in government,1976 to 1980. they rose to $1.10 per gallon in two months.

carter went bye-bye in 1980. 49 states voted... no, 1 voted....yes.

will the country vote the same in 2012.

heating oil is now $4.50 per gallon.

do not forget to tell C.Schumer ,tomorrow...

Georges said...

The city could give tax incentives to move the conversion of fuel by a certain time. The industry will respond quickly and vendors will be promoting this boiler product that handles to specified fuel. For those who recently bought new equipment will not phase out anytime soon. Focus on new construction - specifications for new requirements should be in place prior to permits are obtained.

Anonymous said...

Paint the chimney inside with quicklime (CaO) to absorb the sulfur, then sell the resultant saturate as gypsum (CaSO4)to Chinese wallboard makers.

Anonymous said...

Paint the chimney inside with quicklime (CaO) to absorb the sulfur, then sell the resultant saturate as gypsum (CaSO4)to Chinese wallboard makers.

PROBLEM SOLVED!