"Paul M. Eldridge" wrote:

Perhaps "cheap" is a relative term. I paid $750.00 CDN for the
installation of my indoor tank four years ago and this was a
discounted price that required a minimum one-year commitment with my
fuel oil supplier (Scotia Fuels).

More to the point, good friends of mine own a ski chalet in northern
Nova Scotia. Their oil tank was located outside and two years ago
someone had been stealing their heating oil by disconnecting the
bottom feed line. Unfortunately, they didn't properly reconnect it
and some 500 to 900 litres of heating oil leaked into the ground and
contaminated a number of neighbouring wells. And as luck would have
it, they also stole from the church next door, with the exaxt same
consequences.

So, the long and the short is that they were sued and the insurance
company covered only part of their legal and clean-up costs and now
they can't buy homeowners insurance. Moreover, they're can't sell
their home because there's still evidence of ground contamination
(which might very well be from the neighbouring church). Needless to
say, you don't discuss "the high cost of home heating oil" in their
presence.

For more information on heating oil tanks and the potential risk of
oil spills, see:

http://www.oilyeller.com/images/COHA_Nov_Dec%2002.pdf

http://www.gov.pe.ca/photos/original/HomeHeatSafety.pdf

http://www.gov.ns.ca/enla/petroleum/...lTankGuide.pdf

Cheers,
Paul

Tanks are cheap (at least indoor ones), and indoor ones do not require
periodic replacement, nor do newly installed double wall underground
tanks.

I'm not sure you can conclude much of anything from an incident that
resulted from criminal activity.

Pete C.