OMG, I just wrote the check for the heating oil bill...
 

I almost fainted... :eek: the guy told me oh, you only needed 200 gallons to fill the tank here's the bill, $700.00 OMG, I say it again i almost fainted...LOL ouch............ well thank God we had the money to pay for it.. but again OUCH...... :(:(
hugs,

Oil bill?? What is that?

Come to California, we will beat that bill!!

lol i hear ya...so thankful to have a pellet stove this year cause i have only spent 450 and one oil tank fill up for 700...by now i would be well into the 2000 for oil costs!

LOL, it sounds great to be warm all year round..LOL

We sell that heating oil. :D It is liquid gold. How long does 200 gal last you? I hope a long time. We've had unseasonably warm weather. In fact, winter has not arrived yet it's been so nice. I can't ever remember our heating bill being so low for this time of year. I guess I have more money to spend on my girls. :D

Ugh, it's insane! My dad just paid ours too and I think it was in that vicinity. Thankfully we have a wood stove fireplace that heats up much of the house so we try not to use the heat as much.

the tank is 375, and it was filled up last october, with the temps being so crazy I guess we did ok, hubby does not like when it gets low in case of a crazy storm or anything since we paid COD because is cheaper that way, when the marker is at 1/4 we call and they come the next day, but lately is being a SHOCK how little oil we get for the same money..:eek::eek:

I feel your pain--only it is just the opposite for us here on the Gulf Coast! Our power bills in the summer (which is aprox. 7-8 months long, lol) is almost bankrupting us! When temps average in the mid to upper 90's during the day during the hottest months (June, July, August, September) and the 80's at night, there is NOTHING you can do but sweat or run the AC! The average bill for us (2 adults and 2 yorkies) is around 400 plus.:(:eek:

We just replaced our furnace and AC because both were busted and from 1982. They're supposed to be "efficient" but we still pay an arm and a leg for heating.AC. Needless to say, it doesn't get above 56 at night during the winter months.

I've heard that people in the NE use "heating oil". What is heating oil? In the SE everything is run on natural gas or electricity. I'd never even heard of heating oil until recently.

Wait...are you saying you set your thermostat at 56? I ask because the week before last it got a bit colder here than it'd been. I was fine. The inside temp was 72 degrees & my daughter actually tried to say she was freezing & could see her breath :rolleyes:
She's in Spain now so I imagine she's finding out what "cold" really is!

Heating oil, or oil heat, is a low viscosity, flammable liquid petroleum product used as a fuel for furnaces or boilers in buildings. Home heating oil is often abbreviated as HHO[1]
Heating oil is commonly delivered by tank truck to residential, commercial and municipal buildings and stored in above-ground storage tanks ("ASTs") located in the basements, garages, or outside adjacent to the building. It is sometimes stored in underground storage tanks (or "USTs") but less often than ASTs. ASTs are used for smaller installations due to the lower cost factor. Heating oil is less commonly used as an industrial fuel or for power generation.
Red dyes are usually added, resulting in its "red diesel" name in countries like the United Kingdom. Solvent Yellow 124 is added as a "Euromarker" since 2002 in European Union.
Heating oil is very similar to diesel fuel, and both are classified as distillates. It consists of a mixture of petroleum-derived hydrocarbons in the 14- to 20-carbon atom range. During oil distillation, it condenses at between 250 and 350 °C (482 and 662 °F). Heating oil condenses at a lower temperature than the heavy (C20+) hydrocarbons such as petroleum jelly, bitumen, candle wax, and lubricating oil, which condense between 340–400 °C (644–752 °F). But it condenses at a higher temperature than kerosene, which condenses between 160–250 °C (320–482 °F).
Heating oil produces 138,500 British thermal units (146,100 kJ) per US gallon and weighs 7.2 pounds per US gallon (0.85 kg/l),[2] which is about the same heat per unit mass as the somewhat less dense diesel fuel. Number 2 fuel oil has a flash point of 52 °C (126 °F).
Leaks from tanks and piping are an environmental concern. Various federal and state regulations are in place regarding the proper transportation, storage and burning of heating oil, which is classified as a hazardous material (HazMat) by federal regulators.
Heating oil may be blended with biodiesel to create a product that burns similarly

At night time, yes ma'm. And in the day time it goes between 63 and 65.

here is 68 during the daytime and 65 at night.. right now the temp outside is a wooping. 29 degress... which is ok with me...
hugs,

I feel your pain! We had a fill up around Christmas and it cost $736 for a 218 gallon fill up. Our tank is 225. ugh:rolleyes:

I have 1/2 left . . .which means another couple weeks and another fill . . .:(