How Clean is Heating Oil?

Written on: July 13, 2018

Heating oil continues to perform well during our cold winters because it’s one of the most efficient fuels around. But did you know that it’s also an extremely clean-burning fuel as well? These attributes of cleanliness and efficiency actually go hand in hand. Here’s why.

The oil heat industry continues to undergo a revolution that is significantly improving oil heat’s cleanliness as well as efficiency, due largely to big reductions in the sulfur content of heating oil. Here are a few reasons why you are benefitting from this:

• A buildup of sulfur in the heating system can lead to system maintenance issues. The drastic reduction of sulfur in heating oil means that there will be far fewer system issues, which will lead to lower maintenance costs for oil heat consumers.
• Because there is very little sulfur in the heating system, your oil system can burn the fuel more efficiently, leading to lower heating bills.
• While regular heating oil has been very clean for decades, heating oil with a lower sulfur content is even cleaner, producing near-zero particulate emissions.
• Heating oil that has a reduced sulfur content requires no modifications to your existing oil heat system.

Count on Lawman’s to keep filling your tank with today’s clean-burning and environmentally-friendly heating oil.

In our next post, we’ll continue to explore some of the other great oil heat benefits.