Which sounds great unless you are one of the vast majority of oil heat users who have an electric ignition on the oil burner that stops working during a blackout.
“...of oil heat users who have an electric ignition on the oil burner that stops working during a blackout.”
And how do gas furnaces ignite and blow the warm air?
still need a generator since you have to run the furnace fan (or the water pump)
If you have your own oil tank, you have a reserve fuel supply. Not dependent on someone else’s system.
I was thinking for here, an earthquake will kill electric as well as gas.
No, the solution is natural gas for heating, AND a small electric generator or battery + small solar panel + inverter to power the 120 VAC circuit that runs the heater fan, thermostats, and natural gas ignitor. NOT the whole house, just the heater fan do the natural gas or oil heater can run.
Now, I personally have an outside generator (which I use for jobsite welding) AND a house-connector separate power panel to selectively energize circuits when the neighborhood power is off. Gas water heater. And a small battery inverter as a silent backup for recharging cell phones, PC's, tablets, etc when I don't want to run the generator out back.
In ADDITION TO the absolute and sudden failure of virtually all of the 8,000 MegaWatt nameplate rating (dropping in only hours the equal of 8 medium-sized nuclear plants!), the natural gas available was (deliberately and by law) diverted FROM the natural gas combustion turbine electric plants to the houses and buildings for heat. THAT diversion of their fuel caused the electric grid to fail.
That’s why this oil customer has a gasoline/propane operated generator.