pennwalk
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The oil company called today asking if I would like to lock in at $5 for home heating oil. Isn't that something?
Chris
Chris
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RollTideRam
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Being from the south, I don't know much about heating with heating oil. How much would you use during an average winter? I do know that LPG is $2.19 for prepay here. It was less than $1 a gallon just a few years ago. JC
We have a 1000 gallon tank. We have been using between 600 and 800 gallons a winter the last 3 years but the winters have been mild. The previous owner was using more than 1000 gallons. We are looking at a $1000 increase to fill the tank this year. We have been thinking about making a change but it seems like energy saving heating/cooling systems have gone up in price too. In a way it is crazy using liquid fuel to heat a house. Sadly every other form of energy is going up. What with the value of housing going down and the price of everything else going up it is a darned good thing we don't have inflation to mess us up.
Chris
Chris
You all are getting good mileage I think on that heating oil. We have a 500 gallon propane tank and it only lasts a month running both furnaces in the house with the thermostat set in the 60's. We have double pane windows, storm windows and are sealed up so tight I can't even hear the drag strip behind our property but those furnaces really burn through it.
Last year we closed off most of the house and cut up some dead trees on the property to burn in the wood stove. Two of my friends near us did the same thing and we kept warm that way instead. It was just too expensive filling that tank.
Last year we closed off most of the house and cut up some dead trees on the property to burn in the wood stove. Two of my friends near us did the same thing and we kept warm that way instead. It was just too expensive filling that tank.
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My wife is a heat magnet, she likes the temp above 80 in the winter. Over 25 years ago we bought our first of three wood stoves and have been using it since. I have 60 acres of hardwood forest that we are cleaning up, getting rid of dead and diseased beech trees and thinning maple and ash to allow the better trees to grow.
I guess cost of gas for the chain saw and wood splitter ran be over $50.00 last year.
By the way I spend the winter in my bermuda shorts. I can't get her to go south for the winter since she would be too far from the grandkids.
I guess cost of gas for the chain saw and wood splitter ran be over $50.00 last year.
By the way I spend the winter in my bermuda shorts. I can't get her to go south for the winter since she would be too far from the grandkids.
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Do you use fuel from the tank for your tractor also? ? ?pennwalk said:We have a 1000 gallon tank. We have been using between 600 and 800 gallons a winter the last 3 years but the winters have been mild. The previous owner was using more than 1000 gallons. We are looking at a $1000 increase to fill the tank this year. We have been thinking about making a change but it seems like energy saving heating/cooling systems have gone up in price too. In a way it is crazy using liquid fuel to heat a house. Sadly every other form of energy is going up. What with the value of housing going down and the price of everything else going up it is a darned good thing we don't have inflation to mess us up.
Chris
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Last time I knew Elect. was the only thing more expensive than LP gas to heat with.WTA said:
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LBrown59 said:
Our home is total electric and I don't even worry about heating costs, but the cooling costs right now is what hurts.
dmccarty
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My last power bill was $171 due to the high temps and running the AC. Average bill is $112ish and we can drop below $100 in the non AC months. Our power costs 10 cents a KWH which is not bad. Heard some places are much worse. The power bill for old house which was half the size of the "new" house was about the same. We would push up toward $180 with the high temps in August and the low temps in January. Since we heat with wood the low temps don't cost me anything anymore.
I hear family and friends using propane complaining about spending $300-500 a month to heat during the winter. That just shocks the heck out of me. Given todays prices they may be in a coma after seeing the prices for this winter.
Later,
Dan
I hear family and friends using propane complaining about spending $300-500 a month to heat during the winter.
That just shocks the heck out of me. Given todays prices they may be in a coma after seeing the prices for this winter.Later,
Dan
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That sounds good to me, Dan. My last bill was $238.22 but we paid $.1363 a kwh.