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

[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).

[Slipknot]

It is killing me what heating costs but all I can do about it is turn down the thermostat and wear a sweatshirt.

If oil company executives (who make insane profits) could be charged rediculous prices for their services that they personally need, maybe it would bring them back down to earth, but that's not gonna happen.
Another words if I ever go to an estimate for a job at an oil company CEO's home, I'd charge him twice the price just because, and I'd tell him if he doesn't like it blame the high fuel costs because it costs all of us when we get gaffed

thanks weewee, now you got me pissed, good thing it's in the 50's right now

[luds]

It's killin me. I'm moving this month as a result to an apartment with all utilities included.

[fishweewee]

Steve,

As I understand it, natural gas is closely correlated to crude oil prices.

I don't know why.

Now, as far as the evil oil companies - I mean it sucks but there is the law of supply and demand to deal with (constrained supply because we haven't built new refineries to process high sulfur crude, increased demand from China etc) and the fact that we have these !@#$ing speculators pushing oil futures up into the stratosphere.

Anyhoo, it's funny (or sad) that I'm thinking of my bills in terms of whole van staal reels.

One of my neighbors, who uses natural gas to heat her home, had a whopping $700 gas bill ... for the month of December.