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jrc · 04-26-2011, 12:32 PM

We built our house a few years back with propane versus oil for many of your reasons.

#1-we like cooking with gas
- same for us - but modern electric do work well

#2- we plan on installing a gas fireplace
- we did and it is great

#3- we may look into a tankless water heater at some point
- we went convetional water heater so this wasn't an issue

#4 -better resale value down the road
- I'm not sure it matters, but a very few people are afraid of gas for safety issues

#5 - furnaces need less maintenance and tend to last longer
- virtually no maintenance for propane, oil is messy

#6- less CO2 emission (feel good about environmental impact)
- I can't see how this can be true as heat is heat, you need to burn a certain amount of carbon to get the heat, burning carbon by definition combining it with oxygen.

All that carbon and oxygen has to go somewhere, I guess some could be CO instead of CO2. But burning oil does produce a bunch of other stuff.

04-26-2011, 12:32 PM	#2
jrc Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: NH Posts: 2,689 Thanks: 33 Thanked 439 Times in 249 Posts	We built our house a few years back with propane versus oil for many of your reasons. #1-we like cooking with gas - same for us - but modern electric do work well #2- we plan on installing a gas fireplace - we did and it is great #3- we may look into a tankless water heater at some point - we went convetional water heater so this wasn't an issue #4 -better resale value down the road - I'm not sure it matters, but a very few people are afraid of gas for safety issues #5 - furnaces need less maintenance and tend to last longer - virtually no maintenance for propane, oil is messy #6- less CO2 emission (feel good about environmental impact) - I can't see how this can be true as heat is heat, you need to burn a certain amount of carbon to get the heat, burning carbon by definition combining it with oxygen. All that carbon and oxygen has to go somewhere, I guess some could be CO instead of CO2. But burning oil does produce a bunch of other stuff.