Get Your Heating Bill Yet? Is It Making A Dent In Your Tackle Purchases

[fishweewee]

I don't know about you but I'm getting hammered with my heating oil bills.

It's not mid-January and I've already shelled out more bucks for the Oct-Jan bills than I have for the entire last heating season. And it's been a warm winter.

How are you faring? Do you guys purchase tackle or boat gear in the winter months? If so, are these high prices hurting you?

[Thom]

Put in an wood pellet insert it sure is helping. Oil and wood for the month of dec. 250.00 . ThomT

[Swimmer]

Turned down the hot water heater fired by oil to 120 degrees helped. Wood stove upstairs and with forced hot water oil heat. The colder it get the more open the stove damper gets. Still it sucks. Log length cord wood is now $85.oo per, which I usally get 7 cord at a whack. It has to affecting everynes purchases for next year.

[spence]

It hasn't been as bad as expected, but we also are militant about keeping the heat as low as possible.

Working from home there are times I can't feel my toes.

-spence

[iluvspots]

i'm burning bassmaster plugs to stay warm

[Flaptail]

Ben, as a Facilities Manager I spent most of this week choking on gas bills for our different buildings. Take for instance our High School/Junior High building complex. 326,400 square feet total. One heating plant for the two. New equipment, 2002, 2.8 million in new boilers, circ. pumps etc. Month of December, and remember we were not in session for ten days at X-Mas, $ 56,420.00

I have four other buildings on all gas as well. That's twice what last years bill was for that complex.

[lurch]

I understand the reason for the oil prices being high but why Natural gas??

Why is it that the price of NG doubles in the winter??

I have a small cape and usually pay 500-700/season and the one bill I received was almost 500$ (I usually fill 3-4 times per season)!

I am glad I have oil because when I was in the same size house I was playing almost 400$/ month (new furnace and well insulated as well).

[Karl F]

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I heat with wood, and thank god, trees are all around me, and with the wind storm of 12/09, I have scored some nice oak and locust for next season.

Cape & Islands, 81 % electric increase, 70% increase in gas, and oil, well that's off the charts. And don't even get me started on my homeowners ins.!
It's official, according to WXTK, lowest prevailing wages, highest cost of living in the Northeast, is right here, Cape and Islands,. coupled with this, and the seasonal job issues, and the decline in the RE market, well the economic forecast is not pretty for us down here...

As far as purchases, well, I need some lure parts, will acquire them as needed, and thankfully, I have plenty of blanks

[Slipknot]

Originally Posted by Karl F

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I heat with wood, and thank god, trees are all around me, and with the wind storm of 12/09, I have scored some nice oak and locust for next season.

Cape & Islands, 81 % electric increase, 70% increase in gas, and oil, well that's off the charts. And don't even get me started on my homeowners ins.!
It's official, according to WXTK, lowest prevailing wages, highest cost of living in the Northeast, is right here, Cape and Islands,. coupled with this, and the seasonal job issues, and the decline in the RE market, well the economic forecast is not pretty for us down here...
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and ya know why that is? because Americans are too damn cheap to spend money on vacation and all us yankees up here are to frugal to part with our money. I haven't done much work down the cape in a long time because they don't wanna pay, others will work cheap so they get the job. Out of staters with second homes are tightwads with their money and beat the prices down so I go west where the money is. It sucks that the Capes' cost rise more than elsewhere. The last 20 years have changed the Cape forever and that's sad.

[Thom]

NOt a house but the college that I work at we getting are oil del three times a week at 8000 gals at a time. Now we arn't using #2 we are using #6 still it costs the college about 1.15 per gallon yesterday the averaged 2.75 gpm. Last year at this time we were getting 6 loads a week week an average or about 5.5 gpm. THomT

[5/0]

we are fairing the winter heating bills,not as bad this year,but I must admit the weather the past couple of weeks has been kind got a chance to open the windows & let some freash air in
I installed a 7 day programmable Tstat & man what a diff that makes.

All I can say is,that in 7 weeks I going to Panama for a 9 day fishing adventure,then in April IM off for a 7 day cruise with the wife & kids,Bring it on


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[pmueller]

Just think, this has been a mild witner.

[ProfessorM]

Wood stove on one end of house pellet stove on the other. I hate winter

[Tburg]

I have a coal stove, so that help allot...I just got it last year and I am still deciding weather to build a coal bin to purchase in loose bulk or keep buying it by the bag...I just got a pallet of bags for $270 ( 60 40# bags ) that should carry me into next winter

[baldwin]

I'll burn furniture before I let oil prices affect my fishing. Of course, my wife would say we could heat the house for a month by burning my wooden plugs hanging from the basement rafters. Fat chance.

[Slingah]

wood stove...it helps a bunch with the oil consumption, plus sweat clothes and blankets....just like when I was growin up......
as for the tackle purchases...I'm so broke I can't even pay attention

[seabass]

I upgraded to a high eff. gas furnace, I also use a pellet stove in the fam room. So far this year I have used only one ton of pellets, as compared to two last year, and the gas company lowered our monthly budget payment almost 1/2 of last year. So mild winter and better furnace= more boat fuel !!!

[TheSpecialist]

It all evens out in the end...

[MAC]

Originally Posted by TheSpecialist

It all evens out in the end...

That is what I figure. If the winter stays mild for the next couple of months they will raise prices even more to make up for lack of usage.