The Benefits of Using Heating Oil
Reasons to use the fuel
If you have opted to use heating oil to heat your New York or New Jersey house perhaps you chose to do so, in part, thanks to all the benefits that heating oil happens to provide to a homeowner. If not and you are still using a different type of fuel, perhaps you are curious about what exactly those benefits are. Rucci Oil can help you out!
Reasons homeowners choose heating oil
Here are some ways that using heating oil for a home’s heating system can benefit a homeowner:
- It helps a hot water heater’s water recovery rate: Using heating oil means that your home’s water heater will have a hot water recovery rate that is twice as fast as it would if it was powered by a different type of fuel. Ultimately, this cuts down on how long you have to wait for your water to heat up and get warm enough to, say, take a shower.
- It has a reputation for being safe: Heating oil is known to be one of the safest options when it comes to energy sources. Electrical heating can cause fires, but heating oil does not pose this same risk. There is always the possibility of explosions with gas heating, but this is not the case with heating oil. All of this helps contribute to heating oil’s safety.
- The fuel can help save a homeowner money: Heating oil can sometimes be the economical choice considering heating oil tanks are built to last for a long time and don’t require as much maintenance as other heating systems do.
- It’s better for the environment: These days, there are some heating oils out on the market that barely produce any emissions at all. Also, considering the high life expectancy of an oil heat furnace, using them helps reduce garbage that ends up in landfills.
What impacts the price of heating oil
A homeowner who uses heating oil does come face to face with the fuel’s price fluctuations. A few different factors impact the price of heating oil including:
- Supply and demand: When the demand for heating oil goes up and it becomes harder to find, prices increase.
- Competition: If you live in an area with very few heating oil suppliers, these suppliers can get away with charging higher prices. Alternatively, if you live in an area with a surplus of heating oil suppliers, prices will probably be lower since you can shop around and have your options.
- Transportation costs: If it suddenly costs more to transport heating oil due to a rise in gas prices and operating costs, heating oil costs are directly impacted.
Heating oil from Rucci Oil
Rucci Oil can deliver top quality, clean-burning heating oil to your Staten Island, Brooklyn, Manhattan or Jersey City area home. As part of our commitment to fuel efficiency and energy conservation, Rucci delivers Bioheat® fuel. This is the industry’s official name for a fuel that consists of a blend of ultra-low-sulfur heating oil and renewable biodiesel that’s made from organic and recycled products, including soybean oil, inedible corn oil, canola, tallow, fats and algae.
We were one of the first companies in our area to voluntarily deliver this product, before it was mandated in New York City.
If you are in need of a new tank we can assist with that too by helping you find one that works best for you and your home and then installing that tank on your property.
Contact Rucci Oil today to find out more about the heating oil services we offer.