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I grew up in two extremes of New England. Southern Connecticut where natural gas was piped into our houses via the utilities and Maine where we had heating oil. So there isn’t a “New England” thing in general.
In Maine we had heating oil in the rural areas because there wasn’t natural gas piped into peoples houses. And because most people live in rural areas, it likely never will be an offered utility as the expense and maintaining would be enormous. Another thing to keep in mind, most of these rural areas do not even have water utilities! Your water comes from a well on your property. The only utilities running to the rural areas is power and communications lines.
Some people would convert to propane gas and have huge propane tanks on their properties. I don’t believe there was a big savings when I lived there. It was only worth doing if you were building a place from scratch versus the expense of retrofitting. Often propane houses were fully propane, as in water heater and dryer as well.
Electric heat was always way too expensive. Anyone I knew that converted to it regretted it.
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