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However, heating a home with a geothermal heat pump or a cold climate heat pump would be less expensive than using oil.At $4.67 a gallon for oil, it would cost the same to produce the same amount of heat using oil or electric baseboard heat.or example, a home that uses 800 gallons of oil for heating would use about 25,300 kilowatt-hours to produce the same amount of heat. Visit www.cmpco.com for a link to a more detailed spreadsheet from the Department of Energy to compare heating costs.
In Portland, Oregon, Priestly & Sons Heating Oil Company estimates their customers use an average of 100 gallons of oil per month in December, January and February, which is about 3 gallons per day.n 2005, U.S. homes consumed 5.2 billion gallons of heating oil, according to the most recent national survey conducted by the EIA. In February 2009, Americans purchased 1.5 billion gallons of fuel oil per the EIA's estimations.