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Ardent Listener
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 Posted - 05/20/2008 : 19:27:19
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Unless your heating costs are locked in for a while or you use an alternative heat fuel you can just about expect to be paying double for natural gas or heating oil next winter.
Start to take action now to help cut down your heating fuel use for next winter. Perhaps a good place to spend your rebate check.
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Ant
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
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 Posted - 05/20/2008 : 20:32:17
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| Fortunately, we live in a well-insulated townhome that is heated by natural gas. We don't have to run the heat much here in N.C. -- just in the mornings to knock the chill off. We do have a gas log fireplace that makes things so cozy . . . guess we won't be using that much this winter. :( |
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Delawhere Jack
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 05/20/2008 : 20:58:11
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Thanks for reminding me Ardent, I was having a wonderful day
Let's see. $3.399/gal oil x2...I don't even want to do the math. But that is incentive to move forward with my conversion to nat. gas fired radiant heat.
I put in a programable thermostat two years ago, and it helped a LOT. I set it to 54 deg while I'm away at work, 68 while I'm home and awake, and 62 while I'm sleeping. Got through this past winter on just over one (300 gallon) tank of oil.
ARGHHHH!!! $6.80 heating oil. |
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natsb88
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 05/20/2008 : 22:12:58
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| Good 'ole coal stove in the basement. That thing will heat the house as hot as you could possibly stand it if you wanted it to. It is a lot of work (bring in buckets of coal, shake down the fire, take out the ashes, throw fresh coal on, repeat twice a day), but being less than 25 miles from the coal regions of PA means it's cheap. We fill up our coal bin (more like a shed really, but that's beside the point) once in the fall (I think it amounts to ~$700) and we're good for the entire season. If heating oil doubles I'd imagine some will be paying that every MONTH |
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Tourney64
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 05/20/2008 : 22:48:30
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| You can save on heating by burning those worthless greenbacks. |
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moboman
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 05/20/2008 : 22:55:00
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| Kerosene heaters... Sad. I guess no new buildings will be built this winter, if construction crews cant afford kerosene for the jobsite heaters. |
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Ardent Listener
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 05/21/2008 : 16:51:11
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| Our natural gas rates are locked in for two more years............but let's face it, if they want to go out of business and then go back into business under a new name again who's to stop them? The Ohio State Attorney General? Forget it, he has got troubles of his own. |
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fb101
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 05/21/2008 : 17:43:17
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| If anyone is really interested (and desperate) when we had a power outage I managed to keep the house pretty warm burning about 20 tealights. They're about a nickel apiece in bulk and go for about 5 hours. They wouldn't do long term by themselves, but for a buck or two a day I bet they'd save twice that in heating oil. |
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silverhalide
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Posted - 05/22/2008 : 13:20:26
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| When the propane company would not honor its long term contracts I switched over to wood heat in 2005- Good thing. |
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