What Is Heating Oil?

An Introduction

This is the season for trick or treating, Thanksgiving, and enjoying pumpkin spice everything. The weather has begun to cool, and your furnace or boiler will have to start working harder to keep you and your family comfortable. Now that it’s autumn, you’re going to see an increase in your home’s heating oil consumption. All winter long, you’ll need a reliable source of heating oil.

Cherry Energy has been fueling North Carolina since 1928. We’re the region’s most reliable supplier of high-quality heating oil.

You know that you can trust your heating oil delivery to Cherry Energy. But do you know what heating oil is? Keep reading to find out.

What Is Heating Oil?

Heating oil is made from crude oil that has gone through a refining process called distillation. Through the process of distillation, hydrocarbons are removed from the crude oil and become a substance that can be further purified and blended to make the heating oil that works in your furnace or boiler.

Is Heating Oil a Good Choice for Your Home?

You should feel good about being a heating oil customer. And when you make Cherry Energy your heating oil supplier, you benefit from our over ninety years of experience.

Let’s take a look and some of the reasons heating oil is a good choice for your Eastern North Carolina home:

• Heating oil is safe. The heating oil in your home won’t explode. It only becomes combustible after it’s been vaporized by an oil burner at temperatures above 140° Fahrenheit. Additionally, safety devices within your heating unit are designed to shut your furnace or boiler off before carbon monoxide poisoning becomes a risk.
• Heating oil is cleaner than you think. The heating oil industry continues to make advancements. Think about how the technology you used ten or twenty years ago would compare to the technology you use today. Today’s heating oil is also better than the heating oil used decades ago. And it keeps getting better. Much of the heating oil being used today has an ultra-low sulfur content and burns more cleanly and cuts down on greenhouse gas emissions.
• Heating oil is efficient. Modern heating oil systems offer an incredible amount of efficiency. Some have efficiency ratings as high as 95%. This means you get more warmth using less fuel. That could save you as much as 30% on your energy bills. Heating oil is more efficient than it used to be and it’s also more efficient compared to other options for heating your home. Heating oil burns up to 20% more efficiently than gas. And heating oil is 30% more efficient than electricity in terms of home heating.

Choose Cherry Energy

You can trust Cherry Energy to always deliver for you because we’ve stood the test of time. Our family-owned enterprise has been serving customers since 1928. Our customers benefit from our superior service and expertise. We’re ready to serve our customers anytime, anywhere, and in any weather.

Contact Cherry Energy today to join our family of customers or request a heating oil delivery.