Benefits of Using Oil to Heat Your Home
- Oil heat is the safest, most efficient way to heat your home or business.
- A gallon of heating oil generates 140,000 Btu's of heating energy. This allows
homeowners to enjoy higher levels of comfort at a much greater value over other
types of heating products.
- The efficiency levels of today's oil heat systems can exceed 90%.
- Heating oil cannot explode! Heating oil must be turned into a fine-particle
mist before it will ignite and burn.
- Heating oil has a whopping 142,000 BTU's of heating energy per gallon. Compare
that to Natural gas at only 92,000 BTU's, Propane has 93,000 BTU's and Electric
has only 3,412 BTU's of heating energy.
- Approximately 8.1 million homes in the United States uses Fuel Oil to heat
their homes.
- Heating oil is environmentally benign. It is non-toxic, contains no carcinogens
and is biodegradable.
- Heating Oil burns 300 degrees hotter than natural gas.