This is a travesty, as these recent reports detail.

What would that buy in terms of ground source heating systems to replace fuel oil?

A 5k subsidy per system would support 1 million of these energy, oil, and GHG saving installations.  That's a lot of job stimulus too.

Carefully targeted to replace fuel oil heating in public buildings, it would also allow smart grid operation that can store heat in building mass.

And how much would a 1 million unit order from the government reduce the manufacturing costs? 

Subsidy diversion, from the whole range of bad lobbyist driven choices to better ideas like this, could refocus over 50 billion per year from corporate welfare for fossil, nuclear, and agribizz, to actual economy stimulating manufacturing and installation.

A 4% per year reduction in oil use obtained through this method, would prevent energy prices from killing the recovery, as soon as it starts up.  Has prices are already on the way up again.  Scamming insider trade manipulating markets are set to clobber any move to the upside.

Re-regulation and oil demand reduction just might foil the exxonmob this time around?  It's worth a try.