You'd be surprised at the # of people who have their oil or gas furnace go down and NOT get it repaired and replace it with a pellet stove. So when prices are high they either have to replace or repair their furnace (BIG $) or bite the bullet on 10 bags of pellets to get them through till spring.
I agree. I will stop buying when I have to pay anything at $300 a ton. I started questioning my buy this season at $259.
you also pay for medicare .. making SS and medicare not entitlements technically but more of an insurance policy,
That's insane! Compare your usage costs vs your normal heating system before paying those prices!
I HATE the word 'ENTITLEMENT' as inferred by the bureaucrats as something that they are GIVING us as a freebie. We darn well paid for it over our life span and those scumbags p1issed it away on their pork projects. It's an OBLIGATION, not an entitlement!
You might also chew over the fact that we paid taxes when we paid ino SS and now when we use it we get taxed again. Wonderful country we live in. No wonder the illegals are running here. Something for nothing all right..
! An earned entitlement. One of the few if not only entitlements that the beneficiary actually funds.
Yea, propane is crazy! I don't envy you at all. Usually, when you're on propane, you have no alternatives except maybe geothermal HP, which is super expensive unless you can do the trenching yourself.
Crude dropped $3.08 Friday, now $48, there's talk of going real low this summer, i'm going to get every oil tank i can find, fill my cellar up with oil tanks, i'm gunna be oil tank man!!, within 20 yr's heating oil will be dirt cheap as everyone by then wil have switched over to NG
The ONLY two heat pump alternatives for you way up there would be the geothermal, which I already spoke of, and the new super high efficiency ductless mini-split HP's, which can put out full rated heat down to 5 degrees. THEN you can turn on the Harman. Since there's no ductwork, no heat is lost there either. AND they are very simple to install and each zone has its own control.One alternative I have is to replace boiler and hot water heater for oil systems (had that, been hostage to high prices there too). Of course the cost for the new equipment, new tank, and running the new lines would be more than what I bought the Harman for. And even then, at today's price in my town, I would be paying $2 more per million BTU than I currently pay for pellets.
Then I could always put in electric. Only thing attractive about that is I could get rid of all the FHW pipes. But at some of the highest kw/hr costs in the nation (oh look, $61.55/million btu - can you say equal to $700/ton of pellets?), no thanks.
I'm liking the pellet alternative. Of course when I'm 80, it may not still be so attractive to me; trying to stack and move all those bags.
hahaha. You have the same misconception that I had about Georgia when I moved here! Tonight it's going down to 27. The high here was 42. I just mowed the WEEDS for the first time. Nothing grows in Georgia clay except weeds. It's also impossible to get the color out of your clothes.
