A lady that I work called her oil company today to inquire about pre-buy and lock in prices for oil next year. They said that they weren’t ready yet but to expect prices as high as $5 a gallon!!! The average household in Maine uses 700 gal of oil per year. that is $3500 a year!!! $291 a month!!! That is more than some pay for a car payment. I am very scared. If I didn’t burn wood My home would require about 1500 gal of oil per year to heat and provide water. $7500 a year, $625 a month. The mortgage on my first house I bought 8 years ago was $625!!! I don’t remember the oil stuff from the seventies but it must have felt similar to now. I am having the Englander 30 installed next week and I am going to hoard wood like it is a big mac in ethiopia. I won’t feel comfortable until I am 3 years ahead. What the frick is happening? I just filled up my diesel Jetta with $4.14 a gallon? This summer it was $2.99??? These prices are killing me. It wouldnt be bad to have 100% increases if we were getting 100% annual raise but the last I checked it was normally 3%.
We got a delivery on Thursday. $1.0690 $CAD/Liter which is $3.9406 $USD/gallon. Tank was bellow empty so the total came to just about 840 $CAD or 817 $USD. Ouch, and it was last filled the start of January. This should add more incentive to getting the chimney fixed and insert installed this summer.
We got a delivery on Thursday. $1.0690 $CAD/Liter which is $3.9406 $USD/gallon. Tank was bellow empty so the total came to just about 840 $CAD or 817 $USD. Ouch, and it was last filled the start of January. This should add more incentive to getting the chimney fixed and insert installed this summer.
A lady that I work called her oil company today to inquire about pre-buy and lock in prices for oil next year. They said that they weren’t ready yet but to expect prices as high as $5 a gallon!!! The average household in Maine uses 700 gal of oil per year. that is $3500 a year!!! $291 a month!!! That is more than some pay for a car payment. I am very scared. If I didn’t burn wood My home would require about 1500 gal of oil per year to heat and provide water. $7500 a year, $625 a month. The mortgage on my first house I bought 8 years ago was $625!!! I don’t remember the oil stuff from the seventies but it must have felt similar to now. I am having the Englander 30 installed next week and I am going to hoard wood like it is a big mac in ethiopia. I won’t feel comfortable until I am 3 years ahead. What the frick is happening? I just filled up my diesel Jetta with $4.14 a gallon? This summer it was $2.99??? These prices are killing me. It wouldnt be bad to have 100% increases if we were getting 100% annual raise but the last I checked it was normally 3%.
Just before our marriage (many moons ago paleface) we bought a home....furnished right down to dishes and silverware! Total price was $7500!!!!!!! Fuel oil at that time was $.12 per gallon.
Sure makes me feel rich when I look at our wood pile.
Eleven years ago, I bought the house that we now live in. It’s very well insulated and was heated by electric heat. I paid $16K to put in an oil-fired heating system. Now I regret disconnecting the electric heating system. I think electric is probably about half the cost of oil.
I am very glad that I put in the insert and learned how to heat with wood. Maybe I’ll need to add another insert for the basement.
Eleven years ago, I bought the house that we now live in. It’s very well insulated and was heated by electric heat. I paid $16K to put in an oil-fired heating system. Now I regret disconnecting the electric heating system. I think electric is probably about half the cost of oil.
I am very glad that I put in the insert and learned how to heat with wood. Maybe I’ll need to add another insert for the basement.
Dan
Hey Dan,
Here in Carver we have Nstar for our electric utility and it is very expensive.. From what I understand they are one the most expensive in the country..We pay about $200.00 per month and we do not heat with electricity! We do have an electric range and dryer and 6 people here so that may be a factor.. 95% of my lights are compact fluorescent so I have have pretty much done what I can.. Where in Mass. are you located? Do you have municipal power?
Eleven years ago, I bought the house that we now live in. It’s very well insulated and was heated by electric heat. I paid $16K to put in an oil-fired heating system. Now I regret disconnecting the electric heating system. I think electric is probably about half the cost of oil.
I am very glad that I put in the insert and learned how to heat with wood. Maybe I’ll need to add another insert for the basement.
Dan
Hey Dan,
Here in Carver we have Nstar for our electric utility and it is very expensive.. From what I understand they are one the most expensive in the country..We pay about $200.00 per month and we do not heat with electricity! We do have an electric range and dryer and 6 people here so that may be a factor.. 95% of my lights are compact fluorescent so I have have pretty much done what I can.. Where in Mass. are you located? Do you have municipal power?
Ray
hey guys! i am in western mass an my bill is 230 on the budget!!! yes i have c/a but don’t use it .. it was cheaper to put window units where i need them
electric range oven and dryer… but there is 3 of us soon to be 2/...all of my lights have been replaced… my bill was 400+
Eleven years ago, I bought the house that we now live in. It’s very well insulated and was heated by electric heat. I paid $16K to put in an oil-fired heating system. Now I regret disconnecting the electric heating system. I think electric is probably about half the cost of oil.
I am very glad that I put in the insert and learned how to heat with wood. Maybe I’ll need to add another insert for the basement.
Dan
Hey Dan,
Here in Carver we have Nstar for our electric utility and it is very expensive.. From what I understand they are one the most expensive in the country..We pay about $200.00 per month and we do not heat with electricity! We do have an electric range and dryer and 6 people here so that may be a factor.. 95% of my lights are compact fluorescent so I have have pretty much done what I can.. Where in Mass. are you located? Do you have municipal power?
Ray
hey guys! i am in western mass an my bill is 230 on the budget!!! yes i have c/a but don’t use it .. it was cheaper to put window units where i need them
electric range oven and dryer… but there is 3 of us soon to be 2/...all of my lights have been replaced… my bill was 400+
Hi Ice,
No central air here either! Just high rates… I have 1-8,000 btu window AC and 2- 5000 BTU window AC’s and last year we only installed the 8,000 in my bedroom… Unless you have municipal power the rates are wicked high..
Eleven years ago, I bought the house that we now live in. It’s very well insulated and was heated by electric heat. I paid $16K to put in an oil-fired heating system. Now I regret disconnecting the electric heating system. I think electric is probably about half the cost of oil.
I am very glad that I put in the insert and learned how to heat with wood. Maybe I’ll need to add another insert for the basement.
Dan
Hey Dan,
Here in Carver we have Nstar for our electric utility and it is very expensive.. From what I understand they are one the most expensive in the country..We pay about $200.00 per month and we do not heat with electricity! We do have an electric range and dryer and 6 people here so that may be a factor.. 95% of my lights are compact fluorescent so I have have pretty much done what I can.. Where in Mass. are you located? Do you have municipal power?
Ray
hey guys! i am in western mass an my bill is 230 on the budget!!! yes i have c/a but don’t use it .. it was cheaper to put window units where i need them
electric range oven and dryer… but there is 3 of us soon to be 2/...all of my lights have been replaced… my bill was 400+
Hi Ice,
No central air here either! Just high rates… I have 1-8,000 btu window AC and 2- 5000 BTU window AC’s and last year we only installed the 8,000 in my bedroom… Unless you have municipal power the rates are wicked high..
Ray
i am being robbed by WMECO!! their prices are high as everyone elses.. i wish wood could make electricity!!!!
this world is ridiculus ... do you realize we pay this stuff to make about .08% of other americans rich beyond our imagination!!!! just so they can say “my company turned a profit of 110billion” which i can’t spend in my remaining lifetime!!!! while us guys are scrounging for wood to survive these guys get paid and get their oil/gas/electricity for FREE! drive small cars that cinsume as much gas as a gigantic SUV!!
We fight wars to make some poeple rich ...while the MAJORITY have some kind of strain....
it never gonna end.... to make matters worse we are destroying the planet!!! where are the planeteers!!!
I know it’s too late this year, but I think it would be a good idea to have a “Zero Oil Day”. One day in the winter where everyone in the nation does not use machines that consume oil unless absolutely necessary. The idea is to say f-you to OPEC and big oil companies - bring the price down or we do it more often. (one day a month or week).
Am I crazy, or would people participate?
I know it’s too late this year, but I think it would be a good idea to have a “Zero Oil Day”. One day in the winter where everyone in the nation does not use machines that consume oil unless absolutely necessary. The idea is to say f-you to OPEC and big oil companies - bring the price down or we do it more often. (one day a month or week).
Am I crazy, or would people participate?
i would do it… but can we do it in the summer because i might be walking or running to work or riding a bike...and the 35 mile round trip would suck in the winter...lol
I was outside splitting wood yesterday when the oil man showed up.
I got 92 gallons at about $3.90/gal. My last delivery was a little more than two months ago....the oil is for heat only, hot water tank is electric.
I burn wood only nights and weekends. So far this winter I’ve burned about 192 gallons of oil and about 3/4 to 1 cord of wood.
