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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.
The average household used about 600 gallons of heating oil last winter. At that time, the average price of heating oil was $3.88 per gallon, which amounts to $2,354 per year, he said. If the price stays at $3.15, the average household could save about $464. Heating oil is used much more sparingly in Maryland than New England, which accounts for roughly 75 percent of the country's usage, Felmy said. Most households in the state use natural gas because it's much cheaper, he said.