Mark E. Skeels wrote:

> Can it be more economical than natural gas?

Like many answers, "it depends".

Here in Michigan both natural gas and oil are fairly common.  The price of
natural gas dropped sharply a while back, causing many people using oil to
switch.  A couple years later it spiked and oil was cheaper.

Even if you have a gas main out in the street, bringing the line into the
house after the fact can be obscenely expensive.  With high efficiency oil
furnaces, even here in the frozen north it would take decades to recover
the cost of conversion, even though natural gas is *currently* less
expensive.  And given the volatility, it would be a poor bet it will stay
that way.

--McD


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