Posted on 10/16/2007 12:23:48 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
250 GALLON TANK = $785
That's enough for about half an upstate New York Winter.
Just 8-10 years ago it was 75 cents a gallon.
You can do less driving, hard to do much less heating.
This will hurt retail sales in the Northeast as discretionary income will be used more and more for high fuel costs.
Sorry it’s hard to feel sympathetic because my average winter heating bill (Maryland- BGE) is over $500 a month and will be in the mid-600s this winter...for one mopnth.
And we wear sweaters to stay warm with the thermostat set at 62 degrees.
Are a lot of people up thataway using heating oil? I don’t think I’ve known anyone using it since at least the 70’s. Everyone I know uses natural gas.
Yep, lots of people use heating oil. More and more people are now using WOOD! Heats for about 25% of the cost of oil and 1/3 of natural gas.
WOW, makes the Deep South look better and better.
I have a friend who recently relocated to PA and he tells me some people there still use coal. It’s like something out of Dickens. People out here have begon using corn stoves, and wood has always been a popular option.
“I have a friend who recently relocated to PA and he tells me some people there still use coal. It’s like something out of Dickens.”
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If you live in a coal producing area and you have an easily accessable coal seam on your property, there is nothing Dickensian about it. It’s just common sense.
Isn’t the time to buy heating oil a little earlier than right now??? Just asking. Like buying air conditioners in the winter, coats in August...........
Zoning prohibits new buildings from having coal stoves in most places, so if you have a coal stove in your house you hold onto it.
Thank you. I've been buying oil and gas stocks and options for the past 2 months.
Do you guys have wood pellet fuel burning stoves there? I would consider getting one or two of those and using wood pellets. 40 pound bags of pellets are pretty cheap.
Locked in at $3.00 per gallon for kerosene months ago.
In 1960 I graduated from HS, got a job driving a fuel truck. We delivered kerosene for .17 a gallon, and diesel even cheaper. If you bought over 100 gallons, you got a discount. In 1961, I took off with some friends on an old, leaky, 32 foot, converted sponge boat, to see the world, powered by a 1928, 40 HP Cat engine. We topped up the tanks in Miami, .11 a gallon. We could always catch enough fish and lobster to eat, and the fish we sold bought veggies, fuel, and rum. We could cruise at 7 knots, one and a half gallons per hour. You can go a long way, at 7 knots, if you just keep going.
When my mother-in-law's health started failing a few years ago, we got her a window-mounted heat pump, to replace using her old Siegler oil heater.
Safety was the main reason- she was getting too unsteady to safely light the firepot- but it actually saved her money.
Her oil bills ( and this is the deep south ) were running about $250 a month, and pre heat pump, the electric bills were about $150.
Using just the heat pump, her electric bill went up to about $250 a month, but since she used oil no longer, it saved her money.
And we don't have to worry about her setting herself or the old farmhouse afire, anymore.
I use average monthly billing in Florida- I pay $88 a month- 12 months a year..
There’s a LOT I don’t love about Florida- but not paying for winter clothes and heating bills isn’t one of em..
Not to worry. Al Gore assures us we have severe global warming. Soon we will need no heating oil.
try natural gas. It’s the wave of the future...
Yes but don’t you feel good on the inside knowing that all of your tax dollars and money that could be used to subsidize YOUR heating bills is going to foreign aid in other countries, rebuilding other countries, help illegal aliens coming to America, people on welfare who wouldn’t take a job if a gun was to their head, etc., etc.
I didn't mean anything negative, heck I'd burn buffalo chips if I could save enough. It's just something I didn't know or expect, seeing as how I live in a non-coal area.
I didn't mean anything negative, heck I'd burn buffalo chips if I could save enough. It's just something I didn't know or expect, seeing as how I live in a non-coal area.
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