Posted on 11/30/2011 12:04:51 PM PST by Truth29
I just paid $389.9 per gallon for home heating oil in Northern Virginia. Anyone else have a comparative price?
“I use 100 gallons a day.”
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Out of curiosity, what do you pay for pellets in your neck of the woods?
I can get them here for about $210 a ton, but that’s not delivered...
With the recent hurricane and snow storm here in CT, firewood is free if you have a chainsaw and a truck.
$4.01 Central NY
I heard that people were burning it in their diesel vehicles, so they decided to tack the tax onto heating oil too. If you itemize you can back out the taxes from your gross income.
We have a 60 year old Cape Cod style house here in Ohio on the border with W.Virginia. We are renting the house until next summer, when we will buy it. There is a propane tank (pretty much full from the owners), electric baseboard heaters, and a wood burning furnace that is tied into the ductwork for the house. We are using option number three and even with the work of feeding it with some logs now and then, we keep the house at a nice 70-72 degrees. We had a dump truck full of oak delivered earlier this month for $275. It burns nice and hot. I was skeptical about the wood burner at first, but I’m glad my husband got it functional!
3.94 here in Western PA.
If you are burning 100 gallons a day, you probably need to fix your insulation.
Or look for a hidden fuel line going from his to his neighbor’s mansion next door.
****I just paid $260.00 for a hundred gallons of propane.
That heats & cooks for the whole year.****
I used to live in a small uninsulated house in which 100 gallons might last one month in winter. I got my first case of pneumonia there.
I now live in an old leaky fairly well insulated house but am on natural gas. Gas is low and my bills are fairly low as a result. I use one electric heater and the use of that one heater has made my electric bill skyrocket! Obama has kept his promise!
Penn State has a useful site called energy selector where you can compare different fuels for overall value and efficiency:
http://energy.cas.psu.edu/EnergySelector.html
Thanks; very interesting calculator.
We have a winterized cottage in central Maine. We’re here year round.
About three cord of wood gets us through the winter.
Wood comes from our own land and our own labor.
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