I got tank of #2 fuel oil. Almost $800

[amerikat]

$777 dollars. The pump guy said I should play that number in the lottery.

jeez Louise

[Brickbat]

1. Our house is oil, but we put in a wood boiler a few years ago. We still have to buy oil, but we use

it as backup. I feel your pain. :toast:

[amerikat]

2. I have wood stove sitting on the driveway

another $800 to install it. just in parts if I do it myself.
did the math the other day and wood/btu cost half as much as oil/btu


edit to make part into parts........

[Brickbat]

3. Are you going to put it in?

Our boiler is outside the house -- it heats the water, which then comes in the house and the forced air blowing over the pipe is what heats the house. It's a little odd.

[amerikat]

4. Yep.. will install it myself

I understand the physical world. In can do this.
trying to get the local regs for this

[Brickbat]

5. Good luck with it!

Cutting off that oil pipeline feels good. Even slowing it down.

[amerikat]

6. I have few solar panels

hope to be running on hydrogen next year.
.

[rurallib]

7. How many tanks do you go through?

We are in Iowa. We have natural gas, but we use mostly corn and wood in stoves. The whole pile will probably cost us @$1000 for the season.

[amerikat]

8. Probably two tanks for the winter.(nt)

[elocs]

9. My 9/11 exerience: my fuel oil tank just filled in August fell over on its side

spilling over 200 gallons of fuel oil into the ground and all I could do was helplessly watch. That was the end of my experience with fuel oil.

[old mark]

10. I just paid almost $240 for a ton of wood pellets - will heat my whole house

till maybe mid February...
We used slightly more than 2 1/2 tons all last winter.

mark

[hayu_lol]

11. Just switched from #2 diesel to kerosene...

cost is about the same/gallon. $2.94/gal. Took 100 gallons.

When I came up here to Oregon about 21 years ago, $300 paid for the season's heat. We have 4 seasons: July, August, September and winter.

Going to get expensive this year. This is to heat a winterized 800 square foot house(built in '39).

[old mark]

12. We used to live in an old farm house on a mountain top here in PA,

with an old coal furnace converted to oil...cost a fortune because the burner was not efficient and the house was impossible to seal tight... I recall that we got an oil delivery just as the first flakes started to fall of what turned out to be a huge blizzard that stranded us for over 10 days...we were down to maybe 10 gallons, took all the truck had onboard...
It is a great memory, but I'm glad we won't have to do it again.

We watched herds of deer roaming over the snow in the moonlight, feeding from the fruit trees...

mark

[doc03]

13. I replaced my fuel oil furnace with an electric heat pump

5 years ago, it has saved about $800 a year in heating bills.