Pete C. wrote:


Do your gas price comparisons include the amount that the gas monopolies
charge you every month even if you use no gas?

Pretty unlikely not to use gas for cooking, hot water and clothes drying
year round.

Then there is that tank you have to buy and install and need to
periodically replace.

There is no such thing
with oil companies and maintenance contracts are a separate thing
applicable to both oil and gas.

Maintenance is a lot more involved on an oil burner. You need to replace
nozzles, oil filters and clean the flue passages. When I looked at our
natural gas boiler after the first year there was no need to clean
anything and there are no filter or nozzles to replace. This has been
true for over 30 years. And since it doesn't need a high pressure pump
to atomize fuel electricity costs are lower.




I've lived with gas for many years in previous houses and we still use it at
work. In all of those years, I've never had an outage, but my oil dealer did
run me out twice. In my lifetime (60 years) the score is Gas 0, Oil 2.


Sorry I don't have 60 years of experience, but in 36 years I have never
experienced a single oil outage. Even if I did have an outage, all it
would mean is a trip to my local gas station for a couple 5gal cans of
diesel which would last several days until a regular oil delivery,
something that is not an option with gas. No need for "emergency
deliveries.

Pete C.