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.
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...........
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.
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.
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...
Wood stove.
Yeah, they can be kind of messy and difficult if the wood pile gets buried in snow, but it sure can help cut heating costs.
We moved a couple years ago and I miss mine.
Bought my house out here in the woods 16 years ago - cost $500 a year for oil - now it will be over $1500.
I'm an old gramma - I've been splitting kindling and lugging in wood so far this fall, cause it's going to be a lot harder, come deep winter, to struggle thru' the ice and snow for wood.
I must save the furnace heat for dec-Jan-Feb and then struggle with the wood again...and then, come spring, repaint my walls!
I guess next year, I'd better get this guy hitched up...
A BOTE calc : If you had a 2 ft layer of high density urethane wrapped around your 1200 sf 3 br house(walls, ceiling, floor or about 4260 sf of R = 168)the heat loss would be about 1000 BTUH with outside 32 deg F/inside at 72 deg F(dT = 40)(not counting windows, doors, infiltration). The human body at rest generates about 1200 BTUH. Thus you would heat your house w/body heat alone.
You put an extra quit on the bed for winter, yes? Thus retrofit INSULATION outside your existing walls/clg/flr would do WONDERS for your heating bill. Instead of feeding that obese HOG : BIG OIL, contact your local INSULATION contractor as to prices vs payback period...
368 gallons @2.50 per gallon.
I got a bill of $920
I’ll take your heating bills if you will take my summer a/c bills. That is about what my summer a/c bills run in June, July, Aug and sometimes Sept. I mean $700. per month. See how good you are doing?