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A few thoughts:
1- Did you consider a wood burning stove, or wood pellet burning stove instead of oil/gas? Wood is a renewable heating resource.
2- If your oil tank is in the ground- when you decommission your oil tank, consider removing it entirely instead of filling it with sand. Leaving it in the ground could lead to ground water contamination when the tank corrodes, and later- possibly, collapse.
3- I can’t recommend a specific gas system, but a home energy expert told me that there are systems with incredible efficiency. He said (he might have been exaggerating) that if your system is more than 4 years old it is stone-age in relative efficiency. Sounds like it was worthwhile to wait until 82 years instead of 78 🙂