The typical home heating oil storage facility consists of a single 275 gallon aboveground tank located either in the basement or outside the home. Aboveground home heating oil tanks are primarily ...

“People’s concern is that it may end up at $3 a gallon,” said Jim Barber ... are the best times to buy heating oil, but it doesn’t always work out that way,” Barber said.

By the mid-1920s, demand for oil furnaces was high and rising. Being a liquid, oil flows and can be pumped, which made it inherently more convenient than the only practical heating alternatives at ...