Posted by Bret4207 on December 02, 2014 at 16:15:40 from (64.19.90.196):
In Reply to: Heating fuel options. posted by IaGary on December 02, 2014 at 05:28:20:
The first house I bought back in '88 had a propane furnace. We filled the tank which ran about $350.00 at a time when I was making $17K a year. The tank was empty in 3 weeks. End of Propane Part 1.
I listened to a friend and bought a propane hot water heater. Ran that thing for several years, an average of $150.00 a month, till it finally died. Then I bought an electric because I wasn't about to put another $900.00 into a propane, power vent WH. The electric WH runs me about $40.00 a month. End of Propane Part 2.
Propane is just too darned expensive where we are. Looking back through my bills for 10-12 years I've never paid less than $1.63 a gallon. I've paid as much as $4.23 a gallon. Fuel oil is almost as bad. I can buy farm diesel from a neighbor and put it in my tank for almost a dollar less a gallon than some of the local companies charge, so that what I do. At the moment farm diesel is down around $3.00 a gallon and fuel oil, according to neighbor, is still pushing $3.50. It's crazy IMO.
I burn wood. I use a little fuel oil and one storage room in an old part of the house has a wall mount propane unit. We also cook with propane because I can't stand electric ranges. My dream is a wood boiler. Someday...
This post was edited by Bret4207 at 04:53:20 12/03/14.
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