If you heat with fuel oil....

debodun said:
Do you happen to know the price per gallon from your supplier?
I got a delivery today and it was $461.49 for 138 gallons, so it $3.34 a gallon.
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I have oil heat but I don't know the price currently. I'm expecting a fill this week though, so I'll check then.
 

debodun said:
Do you happen to know the price per gallon from your supplier?

I got a delivery today and it was $461.49 for 138 gallons, so it $3.34 a gallon.
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Friend paid $3.13 per gallon recently. I would expect the price to vary widely, as gasoline prices do.

one place near me was $2.99 cash only 100 gallons
 
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Fuel oil is not the same as propane.

Propane is a gas stored under pressure as a liquid, while heating oil is a liquid at room temperature.

Propane is a cleaner-burning fuel with higher efficiency in modern appliances and offers more flexibility in storage location, though it requires more gallons for the same amount of heat as oil.

Heating oil is a heavier, petroleum-derived product stored in larger, often permanently located tanks and provides more heat per gallon, but requires more complex, less efficient burning systems and annual maintenance.

I have a 250 gallon tank in the basement:
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I know I'm not in your country deb... but just out of interest for you... most of our villages here in the East of England , and down in the west in Cornwall.. don't have piped gas... so fossil fuels are used for heating and hot water . Many people use logs on open fires.. but the vast majority use Oil .. and usually get a delivery of about 900 litres at a time...

The current price for heating oil in the East of England has slight variations depending on the supplier and the quantity ordered. Prices fluctuate daily due to factors like demand, location, and global events
3.78 litres in a UK gallon....
Today 22 sptember the prices are...


300 litres 500 litres 900 litres
Ā£171.56 Ā£270.12 Ā£472.65
 
Today in my town today in Massachusetts home heating oil costs $2.85/gallon. We go away for the winter but leave the house running at a lower temperature so we had dual 266 gal tanks put in when the old one started leaking. It lasts through the coldest, snowiest part of the winter when deliveries could be affected by the weather. We try and buy it in summer when prices are a bit lower.

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We're stuck with having to use propane, natural gas is almost a mile away, and the gas company is not interested in doing a mainline extension.
Currently propane is about $3.65 a gallon.
 
Nathan said:
We're stuck with having to use propane, natural gas is almost a mile away, and the gas company is not interested in doing a mainline extension.
Currently propane is about $3.65 a gallon.
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Propane is more efficient per unit volume, burns cleaner with lower CO2 output, and is excellent for cold-weather performance, though it typically costs more.

They put natural gas down my road a few years ago, I was excited but then compared the numbers. I can't recall they exact figures but it made sense for me to stick with propane.
 
Not too many people use fuel oil in our area of Ohio. I tried to look up price, but would have had to call to find out.

We use LP for our furnace, flash water heater & stove. We started with leasing a 500-gal tank from a company & did yearly contracts with them. We wanted a 1,000-gal tank after we installed a whole house generator, so we bought one. I wish we would have bought a tank years ago. Now we can go to whoever will give us the best price which has been better than what we had with a contract. We topped off in August at $2.10/gal.

@C50, they have natural gas about a mile from us & if they ran it down our road, I would still keep the LP like you.
 
I remember when it was about 15 cents a gallon. That was in the 50's. We had a 55 gallon drum at the back of the house and we would stick a yeardstick down it it to see how mach we had left. It cost about 8 bucks to fill it up from empty.
 

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