When Can I Use Red Diesel? The rules on red diesel largely depend on your automobile and the purpose for which you are using it. The rules on red diesel apply to the following vehicles: • Tractors and light farming vehicles • Mowers • Road structure vehicles • Construction vehicles e.g. diggers and tippers • Moveable bulldozers and cranes • Gritters and vehicles used for clearing… Read more

Looking over a house that you’re planning to buy and finding an oil-based central heating system can be quite daunting, especially if you’re new to the idea. That’s why we’re here to put your mind at rest with this list of just a few advantages of using heating oil over gas for heating your home. Efficiency You will be glad to know that using an oil-based system to heat your home is highly… Read more

Heat your home with oil without paying any more than you need to. Follow the top tips listed below to get the most from your oil heater and save money without going cold. Comparison Shop Heating oil prices NI and UK change all the time, so just because your provider was the cheapest available when you signed up doesn’t necessarily mean that you’ll be in the same situation a few months or a yea… Read more

Although most UK households use gas for central heating purposes, around four million homes in the UK run oil-fired central heating systems. This can be down to a wide selection of different reasons, but most commonly it is because the main gas network is not close enough to connect to. Efficiency Oil-fired central heating is one of the most efficient ways to heat your home. When you use a good qu… Read more

If you are new to heating oil but want to learn more about it – for example if you’ve moved into a new place that uses heating oil in the central heating system – then you’ve come to the right place. This guide will give you all of the information that you need to understand your heating system. What is heating oil? There are two different types of heating oil which are commonly used for d… Read more

If you are ready to replace your heating boiler, it will probably come down to oil vs. gas. So what’s the difference? The Cheaper Option Heating oil may not be the cheaper option as gas has traditionally been the most popular heating fuel for UK consumers, mostly because it has always been low-cost, but there has been a massive shift in prices in recent months and with oil prices so low right no… Read more

Domestic oil prices are being priced lower than ever, however this wasn’t always the case. It was not so very long ago that analysts were sceptical the price of crude oil would fall below $30 a barrel. After all, in January 2014, crude oil was selling for more than $100 a barrel, which was hitting UK consumers pretty hard. Today the situation is very different. The price of oil has plummeted in … Read more

It was widely reported in the press before Christmas that heating oil prices had fallen to an eight-year low in Ulster, despite an upsurge in demand following the recent cold spell, which saw snow, ice and sub-zero temperatures throughout the province and elsewhere in the United Kingdom. The Belfast Telegraph reports that the average price of 900 litres of the fuel has been halved to roughly £250… Read more

The fluctuations of the international oil market are never far from the news, and their contribution to low domestic oil prices is well understood. In recent months, however, they have been affected by low demand for heating fuel, as much of the northern hemisphere has experienced unusually mild weather. The Weather and Heating Oil The unpredictability of the weather in the United Kingdom is, of c… Read more

Mark Twain famously said that “climate is what we expect, weather is what we get”. To no country on earth could this apply more accurately than the United Kingdom, where we experience wildly variable weather conditions but where, paradoxically, we have a touching faith in the powers of forecasters when they tell us what to expect. Given how useful being armed with intelligence about th… Read more