Oil costs have some LI homeowners switching to gas

For elementary school teacher Jeannine Carlo, the prospect of a $400-a-month budget payment for heating oil beginning this summer was the last straw. A three-person crew from Burner King was at her Bohemia home last week to haul out her oil burner and replace it with a natural gas heat and hot water system. "When I got that new [budget] statement," she said, "that's when I starting investigating converting the... [read full story]