Most of the buildings in the village were built with oil fired boilers or
furnaces with the exception of the schools that used coal up into the 1960s

Conversion to natural gas started in the late 50s but up into the 80s it was
common to see oil delivery trucks from several different local suppliers..

My oil furnace was replaced with a 'high efficiency gas furnace (80%) in
1985 because it was now so much cheaper than oil..

According to the API (in 2002) 11 million homes and a half million
commercial buildings in New England and the Mid-Atlantic states heat with
oil and consumption is about the same as it was in the late 50s.
http://api-ep.api.org/filelibrary/ACF1AC.pdf



"L.W.(Bill) ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
news:44626109.41D3480D@***.net...
> I think we just can't allow the poor to freeze to death. And I
> think have a tanker stops to fill the reservoirs probably makes them
> pretty labor intensive. I'll bet you couldn't legally install a new one.
> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
> mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
> billy ray wrote:
>>
>> If oil furnaces are so dangerous why have they not been outlawed?

 

Most of the buildings in the village were built with oil fired boilers or
furnaces with the exception of the schools that used coal up into the 1960s

Conversion to natural gas started in the late 50s but up into the 80s it was
common to see oil delivery trucks from several different local suppliers..

My oil furnace was replaced with a 'high efficiency gas furnace (80%) in
1985 because it was now so much cheaper than oil..

According to the API (in 2002) 11 million homes and a half million
commercial buildings in New England and the Mid-Atlantic states heat with
oil and consumption is about the same as it was in the late 50s.
http://api-ep.api.org/filelibrary/ACF1AC.pdf



"L.W.(Bill) ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
news:44626109.41D3480D@***.net...
> I think we just can't allow the poor to freeze to death. And I
> think have a tanker stops to fill the reservoirs probably makes them
> pretty labor intensive. I'll bet you couldn't legally install a new one.
> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
> mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
> billy ray wrote:
>>
>> If oil furnaces are so dangerous why have they not been outlawed?

 

Most of the buildings in the village were built with oil fired boilers or
furnaces with the exception of the schools that used coal up into the 1960s

Conversion to natural gas started in the late 50s but up into the 80s it was
common to see oil delivery trucks from several different local suppliers..

My oil furnace was replaced with a 'high efficiency gas furnace (80%) in
1985 because it was now so much cheaper than oil..

According to the API (in 2002) 11 million homes and a half million
commercial buildings in New England and the Mid-Atlantic states heat with
oil and consumption is about the same as it was in the late 50s.
http://api-ep.api.org/filelibrary/ACF1AC.pdf



"L.W.(Bill) ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
news:44626109.41D3480D@***.net...
> I think we just can't allow the poor to freeze to death. And I
> think have a tanker stops to fill the reservoirs probably makes them
> pretty labor intensive. I'll bet you couldn't legally install a new one.
> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
> mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
> billy ray wrote:
>>
>> If oil furnaces are so dangerous why have they not been outlawed?

 

L.W.(Bill) ------ III wrote:
> I think we just can't allow the poor to freeze to death. And I
> think have a tanker stops to fill the reservoirs probably makes them
> pretty labor intensive. I'll bet you couldn't legally install a new one.
> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
> mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
> billy ray wrote:
>> If oil furnaces are so dangerous why have they not been outlawed?

"Of the 107 million households in the United States, approximately 8.1
million use heating oil as their main heating fuel. Residential space
heating is the primary use for heating oil, making the demand highly
seasonal. Most of the heating oil use occurs during October through
March. The area of the country most reliant on heating oil is the
Northeast..."

Heated with oil in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Used kerosene in
Vermont. In Arizona I have a heat pump :-)
--
FRH

 

L.W.(Bill) ------ III wrote:
> I think we just can't allow the poor to freeze to death. And I
> think have a tanker stops to fill the reservoirs probably makes them
> pretty labor intensive. I'll bet you couldn't legally install a new one.
> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
> mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
> billy ray wrote:
>> If oil furnaces are so dangerous why have they not been outlawed?

"Of the 107 million households in the United States, approximately 8.1
million use heating oil as their main heating fuel. Residential space
heating is the primary use for heating oil, making the demand highly
seasonal. Most of the heating oil use occurs during October through
March. The area of the country most reliant on heating oil is the
Northeast..."

Heated with oil in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Used kerosene in
Vermont. In Arizona I have a heat pump :-)
--
FRH

 

L.W.(Bill) ------ III wrote:
> I think we just can't allow the poor to freeze to death. And I
> think have a tanker stops to fill the reservoirs probably makes them
> pretty labor intensive. I'll bet you couldn't legally install a new one.
> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
> mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
> billy ray wrote:
>> If oil furnaces are so dangerous why have they not been outlawed?

"Of the 107 million households in the United States, approximately 8.1
million use heating oil as their main heating fuel. Residential space
heating is the primary use for heating oil, making the demand highly
seasonal. Most of the heating oil use occurs during October through
March. The area of the country most reliant on heating oil is the
Northeast..."

Heated with oil in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Used kerosene in
Vermont. In Arizona I have a heat pump :-)
--
FRH

 

There is some confusion here. The modern oil furnaces have all sorts of
safeguards, like thermally fused valves and photoelectric blowout detectors,
that make them more or less safe. Add a smoke detector or two, and you
should be able to sleep at night.

I was talking about parlor stoves, home made devices to burn used motor oil,
and antiques from another era. When one of those goes bad, you suffocate in
your sleep or are blown off the face of the planet.

Earle

"billy ray" <Kill.them.all@God.knows.his.own.com> wrote in message
news:31548$446256ad$48311525$5005@FUSE.NET...
> If oil furnaces are so dangerous why have they not been outlawed?
>
> "L.W.(Bill) ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
> news:44625203.8C81FA6B@***.net...
> > Hi Earle,
> > My Grandparents had something made in the eighteen hundreds, Iowa.
> > It was oil burning and kind of like our forced air heating in that it
> > didn't use water radiators, it had all kinds of safety features that
> > finally failed after about fifty years and blew the house off the
> > foundation.
> > God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
> > mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
> >
> > Earle Horton wrote:
> >>
> >> Heh, did it have a safety system, to shut off the flow of fuel in the
> >> event
> >> of the fire going out? Because if it didn't, it was a time bomb, that
> >> only
> >> didn't go off, because of dumb luck.
> >>
> >> Earle
>
>

 

There is some confusion here. The modern oil furnaces have all sorts of
safeguards, like thermally fused valves and photoelectric blowout detectors,
that make them more or less safe. Add a smoke detector or two, and you
should be able to sleep at night.

I was talking about parlor stoves, home made devices to burn used motor oil,
and antiques from another era. When one of those goes bad, you suffocate in
your sleep or are blown off the face of the planet.

Earle

"billy ray" <Kill.them.all@God.knows.his.own.com> wrote in message
news:31548$446256ad$48311525$5005@FUSE.NET...
> If oil furnaces are so dangerous why have they not been outlawed?
>
> "L.W.(Bill) ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
> news:44625203.8C81FA6B@***.net...
> > Hi Earle,
> > My Grandparents had something made in the eighteen hundreds, Iowa.
> > It was oil burning and kind of like our forced air heating in that it
> > didn't use water radiators, it had all kinds of safety features that
> > finally failed after about fifty years and blew the house off the
> > foundation.
> > God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
> > mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
> >
> > Earle Horton wrote:
> >>
> >> Heh, did it have a safety system, to shut off the flow of fuel in the
> >> event
> >> of the fire going out? Because if it didn't, it was a time bomb, that
> >> only
> >> didn't go off, because of dumb luck.
> >>
> >> Earle
>
>

 

There is some confusion here. The modern oil furnaces have all sorts of
safeguards, like thermally fused valves and photoelectric blowout detectors,
that make them more or less safe. Add a smoke detector or two, and you
should be able to sleep at night.

I was talking about parlor stoves, home made devices to burn used motor oil,
and antiques from another era. When one of those goes bad, you suffocate in
your sleep or are blown off the face of the planet.

Earle

"billy ray" <Kill.them.all@God.knows.his.own.com> wrote in message
news:31548$446256ad$48311525$5005@FUSE.NET...
> If oil furnaces are so dangerous why have they not been outlawed?
>
> "L.W.(Bill) ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
> news:44625203.8C81FA6B@***.net...
> > Hi Earle,
> > My Grandparents had something made in the eighteen hundreds, Iowa.
> > It was oil burning and kind of like our forced air heating in that it
> > didn't use water radiators, it had all kinds of safety features that
> > finally failed after about fifty years and blew the house off the
> > foundation.
> > God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
> > mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
> >
> > Earle Horton wrote:
> >>
> >> Heh, did it have a safety system, to shut off the flow of fuel in the
> >> event
> >> of the fire going out? Because if it didn't, it was a time bomb, that
> >> only
> >> didn't go off, because of dumb luck.
> >>
> >> Earle
>
>

 

How many gallon of water in your exchanger, if you use that type,
that doesn't keep you cool, nor warm. ;-)
God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/

"Frank_v7.0" wrote:
>
> "Of the 107 million households in the United States, approximately 8.1
> million use heating oil as their main heating fuel. Residential space
> heating is the primary use for heating oil, making the demand highly
> seasonal. Most of the heating oil use occurs during October through
> March. The area of the country most reliant on heating oil is the
> Northeast..."
>
> Heated with oil in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Used kerosene in
> Vermont. In Arizona I have a heat pump :-)
> --
> FRH