With it pushing nearly $6 a gallon now, your typical 250 gallon fill up is running them $1,500

I don’t know how people are doing it, here in PA we are still using a lot of heating oil in the older homes. I’m so glad we were able to convert to NG after one season of using oil and that was when it was $2.20 a gallon.

I did my calculations and found that BACK THEN with heating oil at $2.20, it would cost me 3 TIMES more to heat the house in one season than using NG. It’s got to be insane with it now costing $6 a gallon


'It's like living in an igloo.' People are turning off their heat as prices surge

YUP- Just filled my tanks-yes TANKS- 2 @ 330 gals
Took 500 gals @ $4.39/gal

I am totally clueless, in temps of 20's at night, 40's during the day, keeping it at 68-70 in the house, how long does 250 gallons last? Does that last one month? Or most of the winter?

Yeah, I work with a bunch of guys from Maine. One guy in particular is telling me he's looking at nearly $600 a month for heating oil. My jaw hit the floor.

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Originally posted by holdem:
I am totally clueless, in temps of 20's at night, 40's during the day, keeping it at 68-70 in the house, how long does 250 gallons last? Does that last one month? Or most of the winter?

It all depends if your house is like many of the houses around here that are using heating oil, non-insulated, old, leaky. A tank may last you a month if you are lucky.

I bet we don’t see that asshole Biden crowing about bringing down the cost of heating oil like when he did with gas when it dropped aaaalll they way down to 3.59 a gallon…

Tell me about it.

My budgeting system includes monthly "deposits" into funds for heat, taxes and insurance. Every year I go back and total up the bills for each category, divide by 12, round up and tuck that much away each month.

I had been putting $300 a month into the heating fund. Starting in July of this year I doubled that to $600 a month and currently have $5600 in that "account". I'll be getting oil any day now and I have no doubt the price will take my breath away. I typically burn between 150 and 175 gallons a month in the really cold weather.

Furthermore, my shipmate told me that many of the heating oil delivery companies said that they cannot guarantee delivery this winter.

Hot summers have nothing on frigid cold winters when you can't heat your home.

@SIGnified

I see your basic point, but I can't help being a little offended.

Do you really think I didn't vote against all these people/policies? The problem with your point of view is that all the rest of us suffer for the assholes that voted for this shit without considering the consequences.

I feel for you guys. I remember when the heat went out for 8 hours when I lived in Wisconsin. It was 30 degrees in no time. The slab wood in the fireplace only helped a little. This is gonna cost lives. Not everybody can cope with this or afford the outrageous cost.

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Originally posted by SIGnified:

Not one single surprise here. Not one.

We’ve known a year or two in advance what these policies would bring. Even had an election about it yet here we are. I am now in my schadenfreude phase for the next 18 months.

Daily warnings on the news month on month about our oil supply, price and reserve. More, so is the aggressive policy to kill off Patrick chemicals and hydrocarbons.

School time.

People gotta learn. Sorry it’s painful but that’s how people learn. The stove is hot.

The guys I work with, particularly the man I quoted, didn't vote for any of the people implementing these policies causing this. School time? The fuck you talking about?

On a related note - make sure you've taken easy, low cost steps to properly insulated and seal your house. YOu'd be surprised how much heat is lost through leaky windows, doors, etc. Look to your local utility for rebates or no cost/low cost weather-stripping services. Maybe $50 at Ace Hardware could save quite a bit of heating oil usage.

Bundle up. I won't complain about the bitter 45F in Sacramento!

Some dual-fuel power plants in the PJM market that would normally burn fuel-oil are switching to coal to be profitable. Plants in other / similar markets are probably doing the same.

I hope the enviro-nazi’s eat shit, lot’s of it, and live.

If possible, move your living into only part of the house and close off the heat to the rest. It may be uncomfortable or inconvenient at times, but it would be better than being cold. Upgrading the insulation is also a good idea, even without the current situation.

flashguy

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Originally posted by Cookster:
I hope the enviro-nazi’s eat shit, lot’s of it, and live.

Man, it might be delicious if there were surprise spot checks on how warm some of these more vocal people keep their houses and using what fuel source. Especially the ones living in mansions. We know the left is hypocritical. I hope they get exposed here while the rest of us shiver this season.

Incapacitate the GDC's and take their heating oil.
Then? Listen to the lamentations of their wammin.

Will this get people out into the streets ala what's happening in the PRC? Yes, the media is saying it's about "Zero Covid," but really, it is about much more. One way to keep warm is activity.

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Originally posted by architect:
One way to keep warm is activity.

Another is Spontaneous Human Combustion.

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Sorry, just contributing to the dialogue...

Over the last couple of years, I remodeled my 112 year house.

New furnace, the old one was 70 years old, new windows and insulation. New siding where I wrapped the house in Tyvek.

The heating bill went from over 1200 a month to a couple hundred from November to March.

We will see what it is this year. We have natural gas.

No fucks given for the blue voting cuckolds of the northeast.