Well, received my regular monthly fillup. Only used 33 gallons this past month..So, the 35 gallons that they filled up yesterday coast me $137.50!!! yeah, thats $3.92/gallon!!!!!
Ouch, that is lucky your burning wood. I got my NG bill for 60 bucks last month. That includes the gas stove, dryer, and water heater. Guess I used 30 bucks in NG last month. Its easy to feel good about the savings now, not so much fun when your bucking the wood in summer!!!
$ 600 ( will last 2 days) to fill up the log truck today at $4.30/gal (on road). You guys better get your polewood ordered and delivered before it hits $5 and nobody is logging!
I haven`t seen logging truck loads of firewood advertised around here for years. And as I stated in an earlier post,when you see firewood for sale in the local paper you have to jump on it quick. All I have been able to buy around here is csd or rounds for quite some time now.
Sadly my supplier that I had been buying from for years brought me my last cord back in mid-feb. Old age and health problems has forced him to hang up the chainsaw. The thought of not being able to purchase wood and having to burn oil makes me shudder. Last oil delivery back in Dec. was $1.10 a litre. ouch!!
Got an oil delivery of $4.08 per gallon end of last week. The crap they call diesel fuel is $4.25 a gollon. Even the soy based bio diesel is heading up. This load we are trying some palm based bio diesel, we will see how it works. It’ll be fun!!
If this keeps up we’re going to be looking at cold showers..(LOL)
On the serious side, I hope no one has missed the fact that the reason the cost for oil/gas has risen so quickly is that our benevolent government in DC has frittered away the value of the American Dollar. No sense in getting into the details, but its pretty obvious that last years dollar purchased more oil than this year’s dollar. And, this years dollar is worth a whole lot less versus the currencies of other countries that we compete with in purchasing this and other commodities.
Keep cutting your wood, this old USA is in it deep and there isn’t a lot of light on the horizon.
I’ve had the oil furnace on about 30 minutes total this winter. The 250 gal tank is still almost full and hope to keep it that way for a few years. That makes me wonder - will the oil be ok sitting around? I have another 4 years of wood in the shed and I have a couple of sources for some free wood. I’m going to get all I can before I have to start buying it.
I’ve had the oil furnace on about 30 minutes total this winter. The 250 gal tank is still almost full and hope to keep it that way for a few years. That makes me wonder - will the oil be ok sitting around? I have another 4 years of wood in the shed and I have a couple of sources for some free wood. I’m going to get all I can before I have to start buying it.
Everybody will have different views on storage but even with a good stabilizer I wouldn’t store distillate (heating oil, diesel, etc.) more than two years.
