News TidBit...Ready for Winter???

I think one good hurricane could push gasoline prices above $4 almost overnight. Presumably, heating oil, nat. gas and other fossil fuels would follow. Probably pellets, too.

BTW, I was out in Wisconsin last week and saw E85 Ethanol selling for $2.19. Regular gas was a buck more at the same station. A business associate who has an E85-ready car (Malibu, I think) says he gets about the same gas mileage, but it's hard to find gas stations selling the stuff. And he lives in a suburb of Chicago.

Eric Johnson said:

I think one good hurricane could push gasoline prices above $4 almost overnight. Presumably, heating oil, nat. gas and other fossil fuels would follow. Probably pellets, too.

BTW, I was out in Wisconsin last week and saw E85 Ethanol selling for $2.19. Regular gas was a buck more at the same station. A business associate who has an E85-ready car (Malibu, I think) says he gets about the same gas mileage, but it's hard to find gas stations selling the stuff. And he lives in a suburb of Chicago.

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You must be talking about the "Renew" gas stations popping up
in nearly every decent size city here in Wisconsin.
One just opened-up in the city near where we live, and I don't see
any waiting lines at them. As a matter of fact, usually no one is even there
most of the time that I've gone past.

Rob

Rob From Wisconsin said:

Eric Johnson said:

I think one good hurricane could push gasoline prices above $4 almost overnight. Presumably, heating oil, nat. gas and other fossil fuels would follow. Probably pellets, too.

BTW, I was out in Wisconsin last week and saw E85 Ethanol selling for $2.19. Regular gas was a buck more at the same station. A business associate who has an E85-ready car (Malibu, I think) says he gets about the same gas mileage, but it's hard to find gas stations selling the stuff. And he lives in a suburb of Chicago.

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You must be talking about the "Renew" gas stations popping up
in nearly every decent size city here in Wisconsin.
One just opened-up in the city near where we live, and I don't see
any waiting lines at them. As a matter of fact, usually no one is even there
most of the time that I've gone past.

Rob

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Only have seen 1 station selling E85 around here and the price was around $2.70ish. One guy I know burns E85 in a mini van and says he gets about 3mpg less than he does with gas.

I just filled my gas tank up for $2.50 per gl. A local grocery store has discounts for gas when you buy certain things. I only spent $20 in the grocery for things I needed anyway, and saved $8 filling up my tank. Limit is 15 gallons of gas, but I've heard of people paying under $1 per gl for gas. I'm sure they make their money, but it's nice to pay less than $3.00 per gl.

We may burn 50-100 gals depending on how much my wife uses the thermostat. If it were just me, I'd probably use none. Its about $2.30/ gal around here right now.

2.29 in scranton pa
ill stick to wood, this summer i went from the pocono's to o-c maryland than a-c new jersey never saw e-85, the funny thing was the cheapest gas was 100 ft from the ocean at a wawa in maryland, go figure

Fuel oil was $2.79/gal as of last month here.

We went from 1000 gallons a season to 100 last year.

In Iowa premium gas (E85) is cheaper than regular gasoline.

here's a great site to find the lowest price on home heating oil in New england

http://www.newenglandoil.com/



i just installed a new high effecient oil burner with an indirect hot water heater and had my tank filled at the same time for 2.49 a gallon and the t-stat is never set higher than 65 while i'm here and 58 while i'm at work

this will be my first full year of burning with the insert and i have 4 cords so hopefully i should save a ton on oil compaired to last year

97 cents ltr here You do the math. Used 250 ltrs average each year since the new stove. Last stove was 650 to 700 ltrs a year. Longer burn times keeps my wifes fingers off of the T-Stat. ;-P

BrotherBart said:

north of 60 said:

97 cents ltr here You do the math. Used 250 ltrs average each year since the new stove. Last stove was 650 to 700 ltrs a year. Longer burn times keeps my wifes fingers off of the T-Stat. ;-P

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You and the PE Summit guys are going to get along just fine once they show up for the season.

"Heated my whole house all winter with just the legs off of a coffee table from the thrift store.". :coolsmirk:

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BB What a surprise.
Lets see... You take the old stove max 6 hour burn thats max if your lucky. Gone between 10 to 12 hrs a day. theres 4 to 6 hours rite there no heat out put. temp in the house starts to drop. Gee Wiz furnace starts to cycle. :coolsmirk:
Load the stove before going to bed. Max 6 hrs later give or take an hour. Gee Wiz furnace comes on. Either wake up and put a few stick's in it so when I leave for work I can load it with less coals in it to get my max burn time 6 hrs. & so on. OR.......
New stove 16 to 18 hrs burn time on low. 12 to14 hrs on med. Only run her on Hi when Im home to clean the glass and burn the
creosote in the back of the stove. In case i was to have a stove fire. (remember) ;-P @ -30 C I might get a furnace cycle before get home to reload when stove is on medium. @ -40 to -50 C I stay home until I get a trouble call from work. So imay be gone for a few hrs. I run my stove fan @ this time & run my furnace BLOWER on a timer. No reason for wife to touchy T-STAT. Add up my 1st scenario into @ least 6 months your gonna burn more than double the oil. :zip:

BrotherBart said:

north of 60 said:

97 cents ltr here You do the math. Used 250 ltrs average each year since the new stove. Last stove was 650 to 700 ltrs a year. Longer burn times keeps my wifes fingers off of the T-Stat. ;-P

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You and the PE Summit guys are going to get along just fine once they show up for the season.

"Heated my whole house all winter with just the legs off of a coffee table from the thrift store.". :coolsmirk:

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I've seen a bunch of posts on here joking about Summit owners and also jokes about how little wood they use. Are you guys just teasing the Summit owners or are those stove really frugal with their wood consumption compared to other stoves? When I bought my Summit i kinda figured the Cat stoves would use less wood for the same amount of heat but I bought the summit anyway, because I wanted to see a nice fire as well.

Hey Karl. The PE summits have a great name up here. THey mostly burn pine and poplar & get A good 8 to 10 hr burn. Depending on the size of their rounds. RE : What ever they can squeeze through that front door in one peice. I think your OAK will do better even though you guys use smaller splits. The summit also puts out more intence heat . With my BlazeKing I would worry about damaging my CAT. For me I dont need that extra heat as my home is well insulated and 12yrs old. A constant low heat works better for me. For enjoying the flame you picked the right stove. There is NO flame in my stove @ low , Intermittent Flame on Med, and constant flame @ high setting. Compared to my old stove Id say they are frugle with wood with their own advantages. Waiting to here when yours is hooked up.

We use Propane (hot water, cooking and very limited amount of heating). They just filled us up. $2.65 a gallon. Pre-buy for winter was $2.55 plus 5% if you pay with a credit card and you must order at least 750 gallons.