The latest rumors have a traditionally designed oil-fired plant.

Reactors must run continuously, so they could not replace the oil-fired plants that are used only intermittently.

They want an increased power supply but oppose the oil-fired plants that would be needed to replace Shoreham.

With Limerick 2 in operation, the company said it was not using any oil-fired generating plants except for backup.

That utility currently generates 70 percent of the electricity it produces from oil-fired plants.

And we agree that adding new oil-fired plants on Long Island is not the answer.

A large fraction of the old oil-fired plants have been modified to burn both natural gas and oil.

The use of oil-fired plants peaked in the late 1970s, and by the mid-1980s most facilities had been converted back to coal.

Indeed, across the country, nuclear energy reactors and oil-fired plants are being converted into gas-fired facilities.

Originally an oil-fired plant, it converted to a coal in 1917.