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Mark_A_W
Joined: 15 Mar 2006
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Location: Sunny Melbourne Australia
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I just did the sums.
You guys are bitching about $4 a gallon petrol?????
It's $6 a gallon here (3.78xA$1.47/0.92=$6) and it hasn't really hurt the economy at all. High interest rates are hurting a bit, but not heaps.
You guys are just spoiled with historically cheap fuel and car prices. Welcome to the real world 
I don't understand heating with Oil though....don't you have Gas?
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Heywood Jablome
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| Mark_A_W wrote: | I just did the sums.
You guys are bitching about $4 a gallon petrol?????
It's $6 a gallon here (3.78xA$1.47/0.92=$6) and it hasn't really hurt the economy at all. High interest rates are hurting a bit, but not heaps.
You guys are just spoiled with historically cheap fuel and car prices. Welcome to the real world
I don't understand heating with Oil though....don't you have Gas? |
Oil heat is terribly common in the Northeast US... a long legacy I'm afraid: My great grandfather was an Oil and Ice distributer back when trucks had chain drives... My grandfather (now 86 years old) used to carry blocks of ice up flights of stairs in Boston, and in winter would carry heating oil five gallons at a time and pour it int basement tanks (common) or up those same stairs and pour it into cookstoves and room heaters.
Natural Gas is fairly common nowadays, but oil still has quite a market.
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Z-Photo
Joined: 07 Mar 2006
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Location: Huntsville - Alabama
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| Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 1:22 pm Post subject: |
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Oil heat = Ampro
just bad all the way around
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emdawgz1
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All these guys in warm weather places giving advice about winter heating.....
I had oil heat because the house i bought has no gas service. the old lady who owned it previously was afraid of gas lines. I didnt mind because PGW, the local provider is a ripoff specialist. I have friends who pay hundreds a month all year long to PGW. With oil you get what you pay for. And when oil was 1.15- 1.50 a gallon, it was ok. @ 4.06 a gallon. my 250 gallon tank costs 1015.00 to fill. In a bad winter we're talking 3-4 fillups 
I dont know what i'm gonna do next winter.
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jkruger
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Location: Carlsbad, CA
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GO SOLAR!
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aspec2
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| emdawgz1 wrote: | | I dont know what i'm gonna do next winter. |
John......burn coal. My Dad switched from coal to oil in 1953. He wanted the coal bin for a shop. The oil was used for 1 year and the coal bin was restored. It had cost him about 10 times what coal had cost. All he would say when asked was, "&%%$%#$#@#@!@#$%^&*( oil company".
Can you even get coal delivered to your house totay???
Walt
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Z-Photo
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Location: Huntsville - Alabama
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only 72 today - I got to turn the heat up
man that cold - im going freeze while mowing the grass
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emdawgz1
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| aspec2 wrote: | | emdawgz1 wrote: | | I dont know what i'm gonna do next winter. |
John......burn coal. My Dad switched from coal to oil in 1953. He wanted the coal bin for a shop. The oil was used for 1 year and the coal bin was restored. It had cost him about 10 times what coal had cost. All he would say when asked was, "&%%$%#$#@#@!@#$%^&*( oil company".
Can you even get coal delivered to your house totay???
Walt |
This house used to have coal heat. I thought there was a fire because of the blackened wooden beams. It was the coal bin.
But i dont think we can get coal delivered in phila today.
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