ELI5. Why do New England states use home heating oil while the rest of the country seems to use other sources?

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They’re not the coldest states. Does it have to do with infrastructure? Thanks. [http://nhenergy.blogspot.com/2014_01_01_archive.html?m=1](http://nhenergy.blogspot.com/2014_01_01_archive.html?m=1)

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I didn’t know heating oil was a thing until I moved to Boston. It seemed crazy to me when I first encountered it. “You’re telling me there’s this huge tank in the basement, I have to keep track of how much oil is in it, and then pay a couple thousand dollars for a truck to pull up and fill it back up when it runs out?”

Plus the oil tanks leak, ruin the basement ground, and eventually rot and have to be replaced. It absolutely sucks. Needless to say, natural gas heating was on my “must have” list when we were house hunting.

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