AND YET THERE IS STILL A GIANT PUSH TO GET EVERYONE ON ELECTRIC HEAT PUMPS, CANT WAIT TO SEE WHAT THEY CHARGE THEN WHEN EVERYONE IS ON IT AND THEY HAVE TO UPDATE BASICALLY THE ENTIRE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM.🤷🏻‍♂️ HEADED RIGHT BACK TO A MONOPOLY ON THE ENERGY SUPPLY TO RI

You have to burn 1.5 times the amount of natural gas compared to oil when heating your home. Oil is 140,000 btu per gallon and natural gas is 90k when you convert it to cubic ft which is how they issue it on our bills. I miss dealing with my local oil company compared to a huge corporation. I always had someone to speak to that knew my account and home, versus someone who has no idea. My oil company always helped with budget payments and even allowed me around the holiday when I needed to replace my system to finance it at zero percent with them for a year and I never went without heat. Switching to natural gas might be my biggest regret. I had a smell of gas and I called them they came and shut the meter off and told me to call a company and have them come find the leak and make a repair and then to call back in for them to turn it back on after the repairs were made. After having it repaired that night by my service man, I called it and was told they’d get someone out the next day between 8 am and 8 pm! I went there entire night and next day without heat and they couldn’t care less.

Your local oil companies work off fairly small margins, especially after taxes, insurance, transportation and truck repairs. The average Rhode Island local oil company operates on a net margin of 25 to 30 cents a gallon. The average residential customer in Rhode Island burns approximately 600 gallons of heating oil. So most companies are making all said and done $150 a customer (total over 2-3 deliveries possibly more)to deliver oil to your home in the rain,sleet, and snow. I used to be in the industry and the average homeowner doesn’t get their oil heating system cleaned and maintained on a yearly basis. By not doing so you’re costing yourself a 1/4 to half tank of oil sometimes more if you go longer than two years. And that’s with the higher ul standard oil you’re receiving, years ago it was more like a full tank of oil due to the higher soot content during combustion.