Paid $530 for 100 gallons of #2 yesterday. I think I’m going to use my fireplace next winter… surrounded by free wood and all. Better get busy cutting.
Home Fuel Oil is Insane Right Now in NYS
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Can you get like 5 gal diesel in a container every time you commute to work at a gas station or grocery shopping?
Around here Diesel is more than #2 HHO.
Funny. No real shortage but also no production ramp up after the worldwide epidemic.
Just a money grab as usual. SOR release of 5% of demand should do something - but likely just a tickle.
NYSE: XOM up from $60 to $80.
You guys should have crystal balled that and thrown 100K at XOM to pay for you oil pains
My cable bill is 3K$ a year - cost more than my car or mortgage payments.
Now there is an ongoing outrage.
Funny. No real shortage but also no production ramp up after the worldwide epidemic.
Just a money grab as usual. SOR release of 5% of demand should do something - but likely just a tickle.
NYSE: XOM up from $60 to $80.
You guys should have crystal balled that and thrown 100K at XOM to pay for you oil pains
My cable bill is 3K$ a year - cost more than my car or mortgage payments.
Now there is an ongoing outrage.
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Oil disappeared from home heating here decades back. Why would anybody still use it?
Where is there? Quite common here. My last two houses came with oil heat, why would I replace them? when would the return on investment occur?
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Don't know where "here" is, but #2 heating oil is usually still the cheapest way to heat for the millions of us here in the Northeast that can't get natural gas piped in. Propane and electric are the main alternatives, but normally more expensive.
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Australia. Energy company chip in to owners to move to energy efficient reverse cycle.
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Australia. Oil is expensive compared to reverse cycle.
Ah, heat pump. Aren’t those really expensive to install? Not sure how popular in the Northeast, we have a long heating season.
A few hundred dollars more than a central air conditioner.
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From today..propane. Was cheaper just a week ago..if I buy a 1000 gallons today I get $150. Off incentive..very cheap compared to #2 heating oil
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That's good prices there. Here in Connecticut, average propane price last week was $4.22 per gallon according to EIA, and historical data shows the price normally tracks pretty close to #2. Oil contains about 137,000 BTUs per gallon, and propane contains only about 91,000 BTUs per gallon. So usually #2 is cheaper per BTU in this market.
Never thought about comparing the BTU's per gallon, neat!! Thats the best break down of fuels I've ever seen! 
Don’t you have to dig up a portion of the yard (garden?) to put down pipes so as to get the heat source/sink?
For a ground source heat pump, yes. Those are much less common than units that are air to air.
https://coalpail.com/fuel-comparison-calculator-home-heatingNever thought about comparing the BTU's per gallon, neat!! Thats the best break down of fuels I've ever seen!
Just make sure you put in the appropriate cost numbers. For instance propane and oil have to have all the delivery charges worked into the price per gallon.
Good point. Same goes for electricity.
Agreed, but the fixed costs included in electricity probably don’t have to be added unless a person was contemplating getting off the grid.
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I love that the calculator includes U.S. currency as a fuel source lol
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