Anyone Else..................

[Mealie38]

Disappointed that oil is cheaper then pellets?

 

[doghouse]

Not where I live.

 

[Pete Zahria]

Not really.
Where I don't use oil.......

Dan

 

[bodhran]

I'd rather use wood anyway...renewable resource and junk.

 

[Ricky8443]

I'm disappointed. Paying off the wood stove will take much longer now.

 

[Bioburner]

Propane at 93 cents so I will be even lazier than usual winter using the freestanding gas stove for bulk of heat and maybe get out the old Jungers oil stove for the shop and use corn and pellets for when temps go below Zero.
When propain went to almost $4 the stoves paid themselves off quick.

 

[billb3]

Disappointed that oil is cheaper then pellets?

Heck no.

Would be nice if oil prices stayed this low or even lower but I'm not counting on it. With pressure world-wide on renewables I don't expect biomass products to get any cheaper either.

I'll be cutting wood where and when I can and if I get 4, 5 or more years ahead, lucky me. I'll be ready for higher oil, gas, pellet and electric prices.

 

[johneh]

Never used oil
all my life has been wood
the last 13 years also used pellets
If oil were 5 cents a liter I still don't think I'd use it

 

[bogieb]

1. Oil around here is not cheaper than pellets at $2.47/gal (unless, I guess, you buy super, duper, premium pellets - which I don't).
2. Don't use oil -
3. Worse, I use propane - the second most expensive heat source in NH (per million BTU).
4. Even if propane were under $2.54/gal (current average in NH as of month of July), my basement wouldn't be heated (FHW only runs on main floor), so would still use pellets.
5. Wood pellets are currently running as almost the cheapest heat source in NH (per million BTU), running second only to NG - which isn't available to most of the state. https://www.nh.gov/oep/energy/energy-nh/fuel-prices/

 

[Pete Zahria]

Wood pellets are currently running as almost the cheapest heat source in NH (per million BTU), running second only to NG -

You are forgetting coal... cheapest..

Dan

 

[billb3]

COD oil in Merrimack, NH is advertising $2.15
Hebert in Manchester is advertising $2.20

 

[moey]

nope.. I dont derive pleasure in watching others pay a high amount of money to heat their house.

 

[ylomnstr]

I'm having oil delivered here in NY for $1.95/gallon. Haven't had an oil delivery in 4 or 5 years, but with the big box stores selling pellets at $259/ton, I figured I may want to use oil this year, at least as a supplement. I usually burn through 4 tons of pellets per season. Was planning on getting 5 tons this year as I added an insert into my basement fireplace last year, but I think I'll stick with the 4 tons again this year. I remember pellets being well under $200 a ton. Those were the days.

 

[wayoutthere007]

Why would we be disappointed, it's great that oil is low. I just paid 1.739 per gallon to fill up. wooo!
I don't know why anyone that had a choice would throw money away on pellets when oil is this low. Options are a great thing my friends. When pellets make sense again I'll fire up the stoves again, until then they stay dormant. Simple as that.

 

[bodhran]

Furnace oil is currently $3.20 canadian a gallon here. However, prices vary across the island. Highest price is $3.90 canadian a gallon.

 

[Grisu]

I don't know why anyone that had a choice would throw money away on pellets when oil is this low.

Because pellets "grow on trees" so to speak, oil not so much. (At least not on a human timescale.) I could also burn only nat gas instead of firewood but use mostly my stove.

 

[Waterworker123]

Today's price here in Maine the area I live in is1.759

 

[NHcpa]

$2.099 from my retailer in Manchester area. Did NOT stock up on pellets this year. I have 2 oil tanks (275 gals each). Will top off once oil hits below $2. I have 1.5 ton of pellet and 9 cords of wood to boot...and a couple of wool sweaters...bring it on!

 

[Lake Girl]

old Jungers oil stove for the shop

What kind of oil does the Jungers use ... there is an old one at the dump that someone couldn't get to light. Might have used the wrong kind of oil...

 

[bogieb]

You are forgetting coal... cheapest..

Dan

In my defense, they don't show coal in their stats

 

[bogieb]

COD oil in Merrimack, NH is advertising $2.15
Hebert in Manchester is advertising $2.20

But when you get out in the boonies, it ain't so cheap. And I guarantee if those two places deliver out my way, they are tacking on fuel surcharges.

 

[Bioburner]

What kind of oil does the Jungers use ... there is an old one at the dump that someone couldn't get to light. Might have used the wrong kind of oil...

You have to start them with alcohol in the small tray under the burner to get the fuel to start to vaporize in its wickless system. Generally #1 fuel oil

 

[Michael6268]

Never used oil
all my life has been wood
the last 13 years also used pellets
If oil were 5 cents a liter I still don't think I'd use it

Pellet dealers/manufacturers must be loving it.
Gives them no reason to even try to stay competitive. Might as well raise prices higher. If people will pay it, im sure they will gladly take it and laugh all the way to the bank!

 

[Grisu]

Gives them no reason to even try to stay competitive. Might as well raise prices higher. If people will pay it, im sure they will gladly take it and laugh all the way to the bank!

Looking at the billions in profits the oil industry has had over the last 15 to 20 years, the pellet industry has a long way to go before they can compete with that.

 

[Pete Zahria]

In my defense, they don't show coal in their stats

I understand.. and it's too bad..

Coal at $329/T is equal to almost $460 worth of pellets or oil.. ($269/T... $2.29/gal)

Dan