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[quote user="secondhandmodeler"][quote user="Driline"] [quote user="secondhandmodeler"][quote user="Driline"]I thought oil firing furnaces went away with the mini skirt? We had one in the early 60's and then converted over to heated water. My own homes have been forced air.[/quote] I believe fuel oil is still quite common in New England.[/quote]Why?[/quote] I have no idea. [/quote]Why? That is they way they built it. Most homes I know of in the central Atlantic area had oil. One advantage was to buy the stuff mid summer where the prices are at it's lowest and store until winter. That way it's bought and paid for in the coldest months requiring only electricity to run the oil pump motor, thermostat and the igniter.Even wood in some areas.Here in the south it's mostly Natural Gas. There are 5 pipelines to Arkansas that carry the stuff and a small boomtime of drilling in my area for shale gas. Some folks use wood either bought or cut from thier own lands. Some folks have all electric for everything and boy are they sorry. At $300-$500 per month billing.If memory serves, the early 50's were the boom in housing after the war years and those that had oil lived in luxury versus the coal homes. Coal was pretty durn good by then but oil was king.Overseas in England, one family home I visited once used coal or peat to heat everything believe it or not. I dont know how they got thier hot water and didnt ask.
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