JUST DAMN!!! I had to pay $3.22 per gallon for 'heating oil' here in mid-Michigan today....

[Purveyor]

It's more fucking expensive than gasoline that has a .60 built in state/fed highway tax. Our local gasoline price is around $3.06.

I talked to the deliver driver and he said their company has lowered the minimum delivery requiement to 100 gallons. Was set at 150g but he said people are having a hard time managing the $500 hit.

Last year, I paid $2.25, also $1.00 a gallon less...

[seemunkee]

1. Ours was 3.10 earlier in the month

Got a bill for $588 sitting here in front of me. My wife hasn't said anything about the lower temp I have the thermostat set at.

[Javaman]

2. Sadly, next winter, that will look like the good old days. nt

[bdamomma]

3. it will keep on getting worse for us regular people while

the big oil companies will keep on making millions for themselves.

[Subdivisions]

22. I'm sorry alyce douglas but you're directing blame in the wrong

direction. The fact is oil companies are deperately trying to provide enough crude oil to meet demand but it's just not there - no matter how hard they try.

Perhaps a closer look at the oil industry will bear this out for you. It won't take you long to get the big picture and realize why it is not the oil companies' fault prices are so high.

[LostinVA]

26. If that's the case, why are oil companies making record profits?

[The2ndWheel]

30. Because we're still buying the product?

The product is in everything? The product basically is everything?

[Occulus]

28. Bullshit n/t

[LynneSin]

4. You better hope Global Warming kicks in this year

:scared:

[onelittleindian]

5. The

people who complain about high fuel charges are usually the same group that is against drilling in Alaska or the coast of florida. If you don't want to drill you should not be allowed to use the by-product of drilling.

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. ...

:eyes:

[Cha]

31. I see

asshole is gone.

[karlrschneider]

9. Amazing.

:eyes:

[catmandu57]

14. go way

[Subdivisions]

23. Ummmm....

[Lorien]

27. Just how clueless are you?

At the most optimistic estimates drilling in ANWR would only produce enough fuel for the state of California for 6 weeks to three months-IN TEN YEARS. That's right; it'll take ten years and BILLIONS of our tax dollars to extract a petty amount of fuel from an environmentally sensitive area. Drilling off the coast of Florida is also extremely expensive, won't result in significant amounts of fuel, and negatively impacts both tourism and fisheries.

The people who complain about high fuel prices are also the people who want the US to lead the way in developing renewable, clean energy and fuel efficient vehicles... but your boys in the White House and their cronies won't get richer if those steps are taken, now will they?

[PDJane]

6. Sometimes I'm grateful I live in an apt.

I have electric heat.

However, I am also not fond of really warm spaces; I haven't turned the heat on once this winter. Turned it on 3 times last winter, come to think of it. I'm afraid I'm not cut out for global warming (and I happen to like wool clothes, which may be a good thing).

[MADem]

8. Window kits, insulation, electric e-heaters (these are probably cheaper than fuel oil at this point)

Anyone who uses oil needs to rethink HOW they use it. We have a small holiday place that uses it, and we just use the oil to barely "take the chill off" and then switch to combo heating (electric convection heaters, wood).

It's too late for folks to lock into a rate that will do them any good, I think. I imagine the cost will bounce around all winter around the price it's at now....

[izquierdista]

10. Time to cut the heating oil with biofuels

You do realize that vegetable oil from the deep fryer burns just about the same as #2 heating oil, don't you? That fast food places are paying around 10 cents a gallon to have it hauled off. If there isn't a biodiesel business in your area picking it up, you could be.

[knitter4democracy]

11. I've never heard of it that high.

My mom's pulling the tank at her old house in Dansville to get it ready to sell. I can't believe how much heating oil's costing right now. Will that tank get you through the winter?

Oh, and I looked it up and wood's costing the same this year as last. We'll be using the fireplace more this year, I think.

[BuyingThyme]

12. I paid about $4.50 per gallon for gas this weekend.

I was WAY off the beaten path, but still...

[spanone]

13. until consumers push back, we'll take it up the ass.....

[hack89]

15. I lucked out with a budget plan that capped my rate at $2.75 nt

[gasperc]

16. how long does it last? 2 or 3 months

consumer energy offers the 'budget plan' so I'm reemed a paltry $166/month so me and my family don't freeze to death

[Purveyor]

18. Last year, with the unusually cold winter, we went through 500 gallons.

We went for days and days without getting above 10 degrees.

I'm hoping like hell that isn't the case this year.

We are utilizing electric heaters this year and still have a wood-fired boiler that I need to tap back into the hot water heating system.

[gasperc]

25. I paid $1992 for entire year

so it looks like you paid a steep price for that winter.($1600?) But it's all relative, I have a fairly big house, 2600sf and this big ass entrance way loft ceiling which is lethal to keep heated. I hope it's warmer this year for both of us.

[ThomWV]

17. $3.17 a gallon for #2 last night in northern West Virginia

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

19. We paid $3.14 a gallon on Friday in Maine. n/t

[Subdivisions]

20. And why do you suppose that heating oil costs so much? n/t

[dysfunctional press]

21. at what point does it become cost-effective to switch to different heat?

we have natural-gas forced air, and we're looking into switching to geo-thermal.

[dembotoz]

24. tired of putting up plastic

but plastic over the windows help alot.
First time i put plastic over the patio door I was amazed at the difference.
would help if the windows were worth a damn--joys of renting.

[Lorien]

29. That's painful

I think I paid 2.25 last year too, and only about $1.60 a couple of years earlier. My furnace died last year and it's too expensive to replace, so I'll make due with space heaters this year-but that's not a viable alternative in Michigan. I guess that all I can suggest in insulation, polar fleece, and flannel sheets. :-(