Kaleb C. Striplin wrote:
BTW, whats the deal with heating oil anyways, why is it still used up north? Surely they would have come up with more efficient ways by now.
Well, if you live in town, natural gas is an obvious and popular choice -- though its price has been increasing even more rapidly than heating oil's, lately. (The major supplier is Alberta, but their wells are mostly tapped out. It's still often flared off in the middle east, but it's difficult stuff to ship.) If you don't live in an area served by gas mains, which is true of most rural areas, you're pretty much limited to either heating oil or propane. Neither is particularly cheap. Propane burns cleaner, but you have to have an ugly "pig" tank in your yard, while a heating oil tank can be hidden in the basement.
