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  1. 12-03-2007, 07:30 PM #1
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    Default Sheesh!!

    I have not posted for quite awhile but I have been keeping up with the village. I just about had my socks knocked off today! We had a oil delivery.
    Last year I paid approx. $180 to 200 for a tank full. My bill today was $364.
    Down goes the thermostat and out come the sweatshirts.
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  2. 12-03-2007, 07:48 PM #2
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    OMG! What a shock that must have been!
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  3. 12-04-2007, 10:07 AM #3
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    Yep, last I checked here in No. Nevada I got a quote for $3.49/gal with 100 gallon minimum! No way! DBF stocked up on wood and passed on the heating oil! Thank goodness he has a wood stove. It's already gotten into the teens at night here.
    Think warm thoughts!
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  4. 12-04-2007, 11:35 AM #4
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    I hear you!! I remember a time when heating a home was CHEAP. Now it is $200/mo! Well, we don't pay that. We have befriended house framers and go an d clean up sites and get hte cut offs for free, so we heat with wood all winter. At night right now we're at -5ºF, and not a whole lot warmer during the day. Our furnace runs once a day, that is about 5:30 am when the fire has burned out and the house cools. I'm up at about 6, so I turn the thermostat down and fire up the fireplace again, and by the time my kids are up the house is comfortable. My gas bill is about $45/mo, power is more, I'm working on it. But sure beats up to $300/mo for natural gas!!
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  5. 12-04-2007, 01:14 PM #5
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    Just got up & turned off the furnace & threw another log on the fire.
    Here's an oil price list for NYr's
    http://www.nyserda.org/Energy_Information/nyepc.asp
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  6. 12-05-2007, 09:07 AM #6
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    My DH is the propane service & delivery man. It's this time of year that I worry about him sometimes. He doesn't make the prices (propane just rose to 4.099/gal and has a 200 gal minimum delivery) but that doesn't stop the customers from blaming him and threatening him at times.
    marym, have you contacted the office to see if you can get a discount or work something else out? I'm not sure how oil works, but sometimes the CSR is able to bring the price down a little bit where my DH works. People need heat and it sucks that Corporate America decides what the little people will pay!!!!
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  7. 12-05-2007, 09:26 AM #7
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    Wow...that is painful, isn't it? Stay warm and drink a lot of hot tea!
    Bought my new oven 1/08 and loving it!


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    Default Electric is Less Expensive than Propane

    At Four dollars and a dime for propane it would save money to use electric for heat full time.
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  9. 12-05-2007, 11:45 AM #9
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    OMG! What an increase. How long will that oil last?

    my furnace is natural gas set at 66. Think it's time to lower it even more...
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  10. 12-05-2007, 02:13 PM #10
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    the oil will be almost a $1 soon a litre here. Im wondering how long ours will last too.Ill find out before January. Planning to get some by the end of Decmeber.
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    I'm so sorry to hear that! I'm sure I will be unpleasantly surprised when my bill arrives!
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    wow, 4.10 for propane!!! Yikes. I filled up over the summer and am working hard at making it last till next summer. We got just over 350 gal then. At $4.10, that would be....almost $1500! Holy smokes! I set the thermostat at 55, but the furnace has yet to come on. Trying to burn wood here too.

    Sorry you have to be worried about your husband.
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    I just got my heating bill for November and it is $200! It will also only go up in the next couple of months too. I am dreading it.
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    OMGoodness, that is one price hike.
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    Prices are over $3.00 a gallon here. We are burning wood a lot more this year and I am ordering more wood today. It is way tooo expensive to heat with oil. We are trying to watch what we use and conserve whenever possible.

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