Wow. $7 a gallon? I just moved down here from Alaska, where it gets even colder than Vermont and where we also use a lot of heating oil. NOBODY there uses kerosene. Everything is either #1 or #2 heating oil, mostly #2, which is basically the same as highway diesel only without the tax. It burns just fine in a home furnace, and I certainly never had any problems with it, even at 25 below. Now that I'm here I'm going to get some oil drums to put in the back of my truck and fill with red diesel. I can drive up next to my house and siphon them into the home tank.