There is a writeup about Mainers using 45% less oil. http://www.kjonline.com/news/mainer...2.html?searchterm=mainers+using+less+oiloften It gives credit to switching to pellets, wood, and insulation. While this seem encouraging , it goes on to say the the state's homes are still 70% oil dependent and that the average use was 1000 gallons a year. This article covers a time period of 2004-2009. Data so old I can't help but wonder how current it might be. It was fall 2008 when the there was a huge surge to switch to pellets and wood. Just look as so many of the dates of the memberships on this forum. There is a huge swelling of members in 2008. In 2008 pellets and stoves were hard to come by and the prices were what ever they wanted. Today I can drive around and find a dozen places to find pellets all within a 30 min drive from here. Hard to believe there isn't better data available to reflect the amount of oil being delivered to heating Maine. When I first put my pellet stove in, I was asked, "what are pellets?" Today, it is common knowledge.
I would have thought that a 45% reduction would have had a significant impact on the price of oil, but as you can see, this is not the case. Fuel assistance this year is less than half of last year when oil was a buck less a gallon.
I would have thought that a 45% reduction would have had a significant impact on the price of oil, but as you can see, this is not the case. Fuel assistance this year is less than half of last year when oil was a buck less a gallon.
Best move I made. Gotta love using Maine and USA made pellets.
