#2 Heating Oil

[chim]

Underground LP tanks are a common offering here in PA. LPG doesn't harm soil or water if there's a leak. I haven't compared the heated air at the registers with that of an oil-fired furnace, but it feels warm. I've been in places with heat pumps and that air felt cooler. Since we were married in 1970, we've always had either natural or LP gas heat.

 

[Shady oak]

Underground LP tanks are a common offering here in PA. LPG doesn't harm soil or water if there's a leak. I haven't compared the heated air at the registers with that of an oil-fired furnace, but it feels warm. I've been in places with heat pumps and that air felt cooler. Since we were married in 1970, we've always had either natural or LP gas heat.

Interesting. I can’t remember seeing an underground propane tank in MN? But I am sure it’s possible. When we bought this house the guy who built it had buried a 500 gal above ground liquid farm tank wrapped in black plastic. It was down there for 12 years. Totally illegal. Fill, vent, and pump inside the garage, tank partially under the garage footings, stoop and floor. Great fun to dig out by hand!

I use propane. Had a chance to go natural gas and passed. Last two years my contract was $1.65 per gal. Not sure about other places but around here contracts are only good til the next spring. You can’t buy out any further than that. While the contract calls for a penalty for the unused gals, I have never had them enforce it yet.