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I have had our oil heating system for over 12 years now, and I am sure it was in our home since the 50's. I have been planning to change to a new boiler and I am not sure if I should stay with oil or switch to gas.
The plus side of oil is that we have a great family owned oil service and they really have taken care of us in emergencies and they have been reliable and very reasonable.
The Electricgrid/Keyspan offer advertises a new furnace with installation and will run apparently 100ft of gas line to your home at no charge.
It sounds like a reasonable deal.
Could someone actually knows please explain if there is any price difference between heating with gas vs oil? I dont suspect there is much difference.
Pricing gas vs. oil is not easy...........over a 10 year span its break even.
The advantage of gas is that if you forget to tune up the boiler for a year of two you may lose only 2-5% eff. If you do that with an oil boiler it would be 10-18%.....oil users MUST get it tuned and cleaned every year.
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