Oil heat is clean. It burns with little residue, smoke or soot. Since market research studies have discovered that a fuel's cleanliness is very important to consumers, this attribute is one reason consumers select oil heat for their homes.

Oil heat poses no threat to the environment. Its air pollution emissions are insignificant. Fuel oil is non-toxic, biodegradable and free of carcinogens, it poses no threat to your health. From an environmental perspective, it is much better to conserve a BTU of fuel oil than to replace it with a BTU of gas because fuel oil emits far fewer pollutants into the atmosphere.