Great News! Heating oil is safe, efficient, and a durable source of heat.
The following are a few of the many benefits of heating oil.
Benefit #1: Home heating oil won’t burn in a liquid state, so it won’t ever spontaneously combust – making it safe. If a leak should happen, it’s not an explosive hazard. Additionally, the advent of Ultra Low Sulfur (ULS) heating oil has made heating your home with oil better for the environment and public health.
Benefit #2: Home heating oil is efficient. A gallon of heating oil produces 35% more heat than a gallon of natural gas. That means you can use less fuel to make the same amount of heat. In addition, heating oil produces the hottest flame of any home heating fuel, allowing it to warm your house faster. But wait—there’s more! ULS reduces the amount of sulfur buildup and allows your system to run at a more efficient level. It’s an efficiency trifecta.
Benefit #3: Heating oil systems are durable. A maintained heating oil system should last for as little as 15 to as many as 25 years or more. Using NALA quality heating oil will help your furnace running smoothly and efficiently thereby lengthening the life of your system.
Safe, efficient, durable. It’s easy to see why so many New Englanders count on heating oil to heat our homes through those long and snowy winters.
Heating oil is safe
A lot of people wonder if heating oil is actually safe. Heating systems work by warming air or water with a controlled firethat is intentionally lit inside your home every day, several times a day.
Home heating oil won’t burn in a liquid state, so there is no risk that your tank will spontaneously combust. Should a leak happen, there is no risk of an explosive hazard.
Heating oil is now safer for the environment and public health
With the advent of Ultra Low Sulfur (ULS) heating oil, heating your home with oil has become better for the environment and public health.
That decrease in sulfur in our heating oil translates into good news for the environment and public health. Lower sulfur content in heating oil significantly reduces the amount of nitrogen oxide, sulfur oxide, and particulate matter emissions—all of which are linked to environmental and public health issues. Lowering sulfur emissions is a tremendous win.
Heating oil is efficient
A gallon of heating oil produces 35% more heat than a gallon of natural gas. Heating oil is efficient because you can use less fuel to make the same amount of heat. It’s also efficient because it produces the hottest flame of any home heating fuel, allowing it to warm your house faster.
Today, Ultra Low Sulfur heating oil contains less sulfur, and thereby reduces the amount of sulfur buildup and allows your system to run at a more efficient level.
ULS heating oil also reduces the frequency of system cleaning. A cleaner heat exchanger will make your heating system run more efficiently and save you money.