Every year on the news I hear about people in New England complaining about the super-high cost of heating oil leading to prohibitively high living expenses. What would it take to convert to a natural gas system like the rest of the country and use the cheaper, domestic energy source?
Or we could try the "farm" version where each property has an above ground LP tank.
Cost of conversion is expensive, and probably doesn’t pay, unless you need to replace your heating system anyway:
A whole lot, the ground under New England is rocky and hard, the freeze line is deep and the houses aren’t always close together, that makes pipelines difficult and expensive to build and frost heaves make it difficult to maintain. The expression there is "Go gas, go Boom"
That’s not even going into the cost of converting all those oil burners into gas furnaces. Or the resulting problem of all those leaky removed oil tanks and furnaces that would need careful recycling.
References :
Cost of conversion is expensive, and probably doesn’t pay, unless you need to replace your heating system anyway:
References :
http://www.cnbrown.com/oil_oil_gas.aspx
http://www.projo.com/news/content/gas_08-20-08_R9B9M9T_v3.be00b5.html