Heating Oil Shock

[WayneB]

Just wondering what people around the country are paying for heating oil.

I had a delivery on Thursday and the price was 3.259 a gallon (they give us ten cents off a gallon if paid in five days). So our cost is $3.159 a gallon.

I decided to shutdown a portion of our house this year (2500 sqft) and we are heating the rest of the house, mainly with wood. The only oil heat we have is one small heater in the laundry room and hot water.

Oil prices in New Hampsure range from $3.00 to $3.30 a gallon. You have to feel sorry for those oil companies!

 

[billbill1]

Late in the fall, we paid $2.45 per gallon in Kansas. 200 gallon was around $500.00. We only use it for backup heat and hot water. Sorry, this is for propane, not heating oil.

 

[WTA]

We just had to pay 2.90 a gallon for propane here. We could only get 60 gallons off the driver too. Everyone was in a panic that week because of the reports of heating oil going way up he said. Propane here always seems to follow oil up north.
We have a 500 gallon tank that only lasts a month when it gets cold and we have the thermostat set on 70. I'm burning a whole lot of wood this year and keeping the thermostat on 50.

 

[shvl73]

Wayne,
I just got topped off @ $3.249/gal, net after discount = $3.149.
I paid the last bill on 11/5 so, only 65.9 gallons since early November. We burn wood on the weekends. I just cleaned the pellet stove last Sunday night so, she'll be using that during the week while I'm on the road. Thermostats are set at 62*.

 

[jinman]

We have a 500 gallon tank that only lasts a month when it gets cold and we have the thermostat set on 70.QUOTE]

Wow! $1495 a month just to keep the house at 70?

I'd be spendin' that money on a movin' truck!

Unbelievable!

 

[KENSFM]

Just paid (today)$2.98 a gallon for heating oil here in Southeastern MA. I buy from a discount no frills dealer.
His minimun delivery amount is 100 gallons which is no problem. Stay warm!
Ken

 

[WTA]

In defense of the house, It is huge. It was an old methodist church that was moved here and reassembled. It has a propane furnace on each end and they really burn through the fuel! The high ceilings don't help much with heating and neither do the kids. I told both of them to stop using the side entrance to come in when it is cold or windy outside. The heat just gets sucked right out! Our big front porch is enclosed and if they use that door it acts as a buffer against the elements outside. The next time I catch one using that side door they are getting locked out for the rest of the day.
Propane around here used to be really cheap so that's why they went with it in this house. I still remember gas under 50 cents a gallon. Propane was only about half that back then. Times have changed though and we are upgrading next year to a heat pump package unit. It will run on electric which is the cheapest here. I'm replacing all the windows too. I'm also looking into a solar powered hot water system that we can plumb to under floor heating coils. We have a good sized crawl space under the house that should allow me to do something with that fairly easily. 3500 square feet of wood floors and high ceilings take a little ingenuity to keep warm and still be able to pay the mortgage.

 

[scott_vt]

Just wondering what people around the country are paying for heating oil.

I had a delivery on Thursday and the price was 3.259 a gallon (they give us ten cents off a gallon if paid in five days). So our cost is $3.159 a gallon.

I decided to shutdown a portion of our house this year (2500 sqft) and we are heating the rest of the house, mainly with wood. The only oil heat we have is one small heater in the laundry room and hot water.

Oil prices in New Hampsure range from $3.00 to $3.30 a gallon. You have to feel sorry for those oil companies!

Mornin Wayne,
Ouch !!! Thats rough to swallow for sure ! I like your idea of closing down the portion of the house thats not being used ! We do the same thing at our Ct home, both my boys have moved out and we kind of closed down there bedrooms. I heat mainly with the woodstove in the basement, but I also have a gas insert stove in the family room fire place that burns propane. Propane in Ct is $2.95 but I also have a free standing propane stove in the Vt house, propane in Vt from Amerigas is $2.15 per gallon ! Anyways that woodstove is paying some handsome dividends this year !

 

[Sigarms]

We just had to pay 2.90 a gallon for propane here. We could only get 60 gallons off the driver too. Everyone was in a panic that week because of the reports of heating oil going way up he said. Propane here always seems to follow oil up north.
We have a 500 gallon tank that only lasts a month when it gets cold and we have the thermostat set on 70. I'm burning a whole lot of wood this year and keeping the thermostat on 50.

If by chance you have an a/c unit with your LP furnaces and you have to replace the A/C system down the road, have them change it out with a heat pump and dual fuel the furnace with the heat pump. Heat pump will run fine down to 20 degrees, after that, you can use the existing furnace for back up heat instead of the electric strip heats (that usually come installed with a heat pump).

If you want to go to a package unit, some manufacturers have a "duel fuel" package unit which uses both LP and electric for heating.

Thing people don't realize nowadays is that with the R410 refrigerant, you actually get a hotter dischage air temperature at the registers than you do with an R22 system.

 

[Luremaker]

Just wondering what people around the country are paying for heating oil.

I had a delivery on Thursday and the price was 3.259 a gallon (they give us ten cents off a gallon if paid in five days). So our cost is $3.159 a gallon.

I decided to shutdown a portion of our house this year (2500 sqft) and we are heating the rest of the house, mainly with wood. The only oil heat we have is one small heater in the laundry room and hot water.

Oil prices in New Hampsure range from $3.00 to $3.30 a gallon. You have to feel sorry for those oil companies!

I wish I could find heating oil for $3.159 per us gallon. I just had my tank filled, I paid $0.889 CAD per litre plus 14% tax for a total of $3.841 per US gallon. No discounts if paid early. I paid the same price last year. Canada has more oil than Saudi Arabia and we still have the highest fuel prices.