{"id":4040,"date":"2023-09-28T00:21:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T00:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.woodpellets.com\/blog\/?p=4040"},"modified":"2023-09-28T00:21:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T00:21:33","slug":"heating-oil-and-pellet-fuel-cost-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/28\/heating-oil-and-pellet-fuel-cost-comparison\/","title":{"rendered":"Heating Oil and Pellet Fuel Cost Comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/vs.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/vs.png\" alt=\"Oil Heat Cost per Heating Season VS Pellet Fuel (Based on data from 2022\/23 Heating Season)\" class=\"wp-image-4041\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Based on the data from 2022\/23&#8217;s heating season, choosing pellets over oil would save you nearly $3,000!<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Daily Fuel Cost Comparison<\/strong>*<br><em>(Average Cost per Unit) x (Number of Units per Season) \/ 182<\/em><br><br>Oil =\u00a0<strong>$24\/day<\/strong><br>Pellets =\u00a0<strong>$7.69\/day\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cost Comparison by Heat Output<\/strong>*<br><em>(Fuel Cost per Unit) \/ (Heat Content per Unit) x 1,000,000<\/em><br><br>Oil =\u00a0<strong>$35\u00a0<\/strong>per million BTUs<br>Pellets =\u00a0<strong>$20<\/strong> per million BTUs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>*All calculations are based on the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Oil has\u00a0<strong>138,500 BTUs per gallon\u00a0<\/strong>at an average of\u00a0<strong>$4.80\/gallon\u00a0<\/strong>with an average use of\u00a0<strong>910 gallons<\/strong>\u00a0in a heating season<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pellets have\u00a0<strong>17,200,000 BTUs per ton<\/strong>\u00a0at an average of\u00a0<strong>$350\/ton\u00a0<\/strong>with an average use of<strong>\u00a04 tons<\/strong>\u00a0in a heating season<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There are 182 days in a heating season<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/dnav\/pet\/hist\/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&amp;s=W_EPD2F_PRS_NUS_DPG&amp;f=W\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">U.S. Energy Information Administration<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on the data from 2022\/23&#8217;s heating season, choosing pellets over oil would save you nearly $3,000! Daily Fuel Cost Comparison*(Average Cost per Unit) x (Number of Units per Season) \/ 182 Oil =\u00a0$24\/dayPellets =\u00a0$7.69\/day\u00a0 Cost Comparison by Heat Output*(Fuel Cost per Unit) \/ (Heat Content per Unit) x 1,000,000 Oil =\u00a0$35\u00a0per million BTUsPellets =\u00a0$20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,188,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4043,"href":"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040\/revisions\/4043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}