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- inactive, on 11/13/2007, -3/+531 US gallon = 3.78 Liters. In Poland heating oil is $1.13 a liter which = $4.3 a Gallon. Most people in Poland earn $406-$609 a month
The price of food, electricity, natural gas, and gasoline are also much higher. If $3.25 a gallon is tough for Americans to handle with American wages, Imagine life in Poland. - allaboutdatiki, on 11/13/2007, -1/+37My house has an oil-fired boiler. We just got a delivery of 150 gallons of heating oil this week ... at $3.25 per gallon. An average winter can suck down 1000 gallons. We're screwed :( ...
- g2g079, on 11/13/2007, -4/+26Children make excellent fuel. They are the only natural alternative fuel which can also help you keep your cooking costs down.
- xuanyan, on 11/13/2007, -9/+26It's 80 degrees in Phoenix today. I'm just sayin...
- MarkDykeman, on 11/13/2007, -2/+17I'm next door to Maine; I can sympathize with them
- GoneSouth, on 11/13/2007, -1/+15Yes, but how was your air conditioning bill back in august?
- slayerab, on 11/13/2007, -1/+14It sounds tempting just to sleep in layers from now on....
- tuckerleary, on 11/13/2007, -0/+13ya, we do have insulation here, thanks.
its just really damn cold, and no matter how insulated your house is, you need some sort of heat to fill it with.
in the 21st century, forgive us for not wanted to have to wear 3 sweaters in our houses. - inactive, on 11/13/2007, -7/+19Yes, we all know that gasoline in $900 a gallon in Europe. We get it. It isn't our fault you tax it to the hilt.
- Sp0rAdiC, on 11/13/2007, -0/+10and isn't electricity terrible for heating efficiency?
- ZenMojo, on 11/13/2007, -1/+11Coincidentally, they've got much better MPG than us and Norway's got an electric car infrastructure....
- inactive, on 11/13/2007, -1/+10I've heard it's actually a 24 percent rise in the cost of heating oil, which will add an additional $700 to most people's heating bills in the Northeast
- nepawoods, on 11/13/2007, -1/+10Of course there are. I've got a stove in my basement that burns either wood pellets or corn - far cheaper than propane, electric or oil (and very clean). And I have neighbors with an outdoor wood burning furnace that supplies all their heat and hot water during the winter.
- badtiki, on 11/13/2007, -0/+9These oil prices are terrible ! Another problem is that alot of houses in New England are older and poorly insulated - Last winter I rented a house in Groton, CT which was from the cival war era (like alot of homes in CT) I ended up putting in 150 gallons every 2 weeks when it got arctic in January. I was smart this year and found a house to rent that includes all utilities.
- monkeyrun, on 11/13/2007, -3/+12Actually putting heavy tax on gas is the responsible thing to do.
- ukoa, on 11/14/2007, -0/+9then the light bill is just as expensive as oil...
- allan17, on 11/13/2007, -0/+9I can tell you, as a Canadian, that electric heating is not the way to go.
- nepawoods, on 11/13/2007, -1/+10I put in my wood pellet/corn stove for about $2K, and spent under $1K on enough fuel to keep it running for 5 months. My house is kinda roomy, so it's only going to be an auxiliary source of heat - still using some propane. But it definitely saves me money.
- jthomp3120, on 11/13/2007, -0/+9I'd rather die than move to texas
- matthew.paul, on 11/13/2007, -2/+10Perhaps the houses should simply be better insulated? Most houses were built when it was so cheap to heat them they didn't have to worry about great insulation. Sure it might be a little expensive initially and maybe the government could subsidize. It would pay for its self in no time, plus the environmental factors.
I'm studying in Sweden right now and we only have small radiators in our rooms which put out very little heat (honestly, my candles provide more heat), but everything is insulted so well the -10ยบ winter isn't that bad. - andrgo, on 11/14/2007, -2/+10That's what we get for having a President who has been on the board of directors for different oil companies.
What a total slap in the face. Glad I didn't vote for him. - sodoh, on 11/13/2007, -3/+11Wow, doing rough conversion to Euros that would be 2.21 euros. 1 Gallon is 3.7 Litres. That works out around 59 cents (EU) a litre. That is still way cheaper then most parts of EU. Ireland for example it is 1.15 a litre.
I think now is the time to start investing in items to keep heat in. When I was living in Boston most of the houses in the city didn't have insulation at all and just ran the radiators on full blast during the winter.
Another option for you prehaps. If it is 3K to heat your house this winter, see how far 2K can get you for a holiday for winter. - Clp727, on 11/13/2007, -2/+10Time for alternative fuels I'd say.
- IEatHamburgers, on 11/13/2007, -0/+7One good drought near the water reservoir and Phoenix is toast...
- chalkboy, on 11/13/2007, -0/+7Don't worry about it you will not need to use as much oil this year because of Global Warming. It should balance out.
- siszam, on 11/13/2007, -2/+9Try being a seventy year old on social security and having to choose between meds, food or heat. The world isn't made up of working age people who never had an illness or emergency. Grow up.
- blugill, on 11/13/2007, -5/+12 Perhaps you should lobby the Maine congress to suspend taxes on heating oil this Winter.
- orithidon, on 11/13/2007, -1/+8I don't think you're taking in the account the cost of converting over to electric, gas, or wood...pricing between $10k and $20k easy...If these people are struggling between oil and food, do you think they have that spare $10k to just throw down?
- seandaly, on 11/13/2007, -0/+7Dumb idea... Might be OK in the south but up here in the northeast, it actually drops below -0F many days of the winter.
- Mara5, on 11/13/2007, -1/+8I'm sorry, but it makes me wonder exactly how much of a gasoline crises this country is in when CEO of oil companies can retire with an obscene amount of money. Remember about two or three years ago that CEO retired and his retirement pension was in the billions (I think). My point is that the fat cats are just getting more fat...and...they have to be in bed with many politicians to get that fat. Our wonderful President Bush is one of the guilty parties who is in bed with the oil companies.
- Bhima, on 11/13/2007, -6/+12I just don't get some of this thinking. Where I live we has this stuff called insulation. The walls in my home are nearly as think as my arm the ceiling and roof more so.
If you are really bad off why not buy some to cover the worst insulated bits where you live? Sure it probably does not look like a better homes and gardens pictorials but it can save you a fortune.
A guy who I went to high school who is not really well off bought some of the rigid foam and cut it to fit into his windows which he puts in when it gets dark or he goes to bed and removes when he either gets up or gets home from work. This more paid for itself the first cold month he had it.
When I was in university the flat I lived in sucked in this regard... we taped plastic over every window and shoved something in every gap we could find. - AriaStar, on 11/13/2007, -3/+9I lives in Massachusetts for a year and found it to be cheaper to use a wood-burning furnace and lots of layers, an electric blanket, and an electric space heater. There are space heaters that turn off if tipped or are covered. They're safe now.
- ZenMojo, on 11/13/2007, -0/+6So...if we're still trading partners with Venezuela...why don't we accept their offer of free heating oil?
- seandaly, on 11/13/2007, -0/+6Sure. you can come over and retrofit our house for some other form of heating.
Gas isn't an option, we don't have the infrastructure for it here in the northeast. (I'm willing to bet that 75 - 80% of homes in NH, Maine and Vermont have ZERO access to Nat gas). We can use delivered propane, but the costs are worse than oil. - scabbers, on 11/13/2007, -6/+12Those US dollar bills will at least be useful for burning this winter.
- seandaly, on 11/13/2007, -0/+6Horrible idea. Electricity is not efficient for heat.
- erkokite, on 11/13/2007, -0/+6You know, some of us rather like Maine. Besides, the summers are quite nice if you can avoid the mosquitoes, whereas you guys probably can't even leave your house on a hot summer day.
- defektiv, on 11/13/2007, -0/+6being from Maine and having grown up (literally) in a shack in the woods, i can sympathize. it's really worse than that up there, though. my parents are going to have to sell their house and property, which has been in the family for so many years that the road its on is named after us. and the reason is, combined with rising fuel prices, that tourists are coming in, building summer homes and demanding social services that end up causing an increase in taxes to pay for that the locals cannot afford.
this country and world are indeed screwed up. i just can't wait to see what the rich are going to do when they've driven out and/or killed off all the poor and middle class that do their work for them. - madm0nk, on 11/13/2007, -1/+7Are you shooting for the most negative diggs on record? Everytime I see a comment by you it's -10 or less.
- Jibberwalk, on 11/13/2007, -1/+6Baldacci has. Maine and Venezuela have a program via Citgo to give low(very low)-priced heating oil to low-income families. The problem this year, is that with oil prices climbing... it's not just low-income families getting hit anymore.
- allan17, on 11/13/2007, -0/+5Obviously you are not someone who has to worry about going without food or heat for the winter. Go back to WoW and stop posting until you grow up.
- erkokite, on 11/13/2007, -0/+5Nobody cares what you think either. If you don't care about a story, then don't read it.
- xike, on 11/13/2007, -1/+6Agreed. Thank god for global warming...
- diggcarldigg, on 11/13/2007, -1/+6Actually, oil heat has traditionally been the most efficient type of heating system. Many (most) homes in New England have heating systems that were put in 50+ years ago. Up until recently, there wasn't much debate about it - oil was the way to go. Conversion is prohibitively expensive for most homes. So yeah, if you're building a new home today, knowing what we know now about oil prices, resources, pollution, etc. - oil is probably not as popular of a choice. But in 1940, that's just what you used.
- irvman21, on 11/13/2007, -2/+7Right, cause that's going to be cheaper.
- nihilite, on 11/13/2007, -0/+4exxon has made over $155 billion in profits over the last years...
- Photokon, on 11/13/2007, -3/+7Stupid foreigners talking about their gas prices when the discussion is heating oil
- monkeyboy7706, on 11/13/2007, -0/+4pff that was an hour ago its now 1200 euros per gallon and rising. Soon it'll be cheaper to burn diamonds (at least till they apply fuel tax to them).
- seandaly, on 11/13/2007, -0/+4Not when you have little kids running around. 2 yr olds are retarded and will stick their fingers wherever they can.
- allan17, on 11/13/2007, -1/+5*900 Euros a gallon
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