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Heating oil terms explained

The short answer

Twenty-two terms, one line each. The important ones are the two that trip people up across the Atlantic: British heating oil is 28 second kerosene, American heating oil is No. 2 distillate, and a price quoted in one is not a price in the other.

Terms defined

22

UK domestic grade

28 sec

US domestic grade

No. 2

Ullage ceiling

95%

The vocabulary on the two sides of this site is not the same, and the mismatch is where most confusion about heating oil cost starts. What follows is the working set.

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