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Residential heating oil is actually one of the more environmentally-friendly and efficient ways to heat your home and hot water. Today's oil heat burns 95% cleaner than it did in 1970. Heating oil emissions are so negligible that they are not even regulated by the Federal Clean Air Act. Future low-sulfur products and bio-fuels such as those made from soy beans will also further reduce the already near-zero emissions.

Just as there is with heating oil, there are many misconceptions when it comes to oil tanks. Tanks can last for decades without needing to be replace and are designed with corrosion resistant materials for a longer life. If there happens to be a leak, oil moves slowly in most soils meaning any spill can be confined to a small area. The chance of a leak from an underground heating oil tank is less than a quarter of 1%.

The major environmental problem, of course, is that oil is a fossil fuel, so burning it is releasing long hidden greenhouse gases that are causing global warming and climate change.

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