According to the Energy Information Administration, based on average efficiencies, a price of $250 a ton for wood pellets equals about $2.45 per gallon for heating oil.

The average home uses 20% less oil than it did 20 years ago.

Heating oil burns almost 95 percent cleaner than it did in 1970.

When adjusted for inflation heating oil is currently less expensive than it was in 1983 and has been for all of the intervening years except 2006, 2007 and 2008.