Just the Facts

The heating oil industry is working to cut the sulfur content of heating oil from 1,500 parts per million to 15 parts per million by 2018.
In addition to its sulfur reductions, the heating oil industry is moving toward zero emissions with new fuel blends, called Bioheat®, which contain between 2 and 20 percent renewable fuel.
Since 1980, the price of heating oil has increased about half as much as prices for other consumer products, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
Since 1970, the heating oil industry has cut its total greenhouse gas emissions by approximately one third.
Innovations in heating equipment and conservation means that an average consumer using 1,200 gallons of heating oil in 1989 now uses only 800 gallons, or 25% less.
Heating oil burns almost 95% cleaner than it did in 1970. Today, residential oil burners produce less than one-third of one percent of total U.S. particulate emissions.
The heating oil industry’s commitment to renewable fuels, means that there will be thousands of good-paying jobs available for highly trained technicians, engineers, researchers, oil field workers, and others.
Each year, the heating oil industry accounts for $20 billion in sales and $1.9 billion in payroll for 49,000 Americans.
It takes an advanced high-tech burner to ignite heating oil. If you drop a match into heating oil it will go out as if dropped into water.
Heating oil must be vaporized before it will ignite or burn.