Maine, fuel oil prices.

[StorminN]

Hey Dave and submarinesailor,

About how many kWh's are in a DHT? I guess it depends on how you turn the electricity into heat, eh? Straight resistive heat vs. something else?...

Electricity is considered cheap here, it's $0.06 per kWh... and I know lots of people that use it for everything... heat, hot water, clothes dryer, range. I have a neighbor that has a ground-source heat pump (long tubes of glycol in the ground) and a well-insulated house, and he heats his home and domestic hot water for about $40 in electricity a month in the winter.

I live in a poorly-insulated 1910 farmhouse and it costs me about $140 a month to heat the house and hot water with electric (I have a propane dryer and propane range). Of course, our winters are mild here, compared to New England... (and having lived in Maine and Rhode Island for 20 years, I know the difference).

Fuel oil is near $4.00 a gallon here as well. It would be interesting to do a calculated comparison...

-N.

[bull]

How about the price of diesel fuel, just hit $4.15 a gallon, just got notified of additional fuel surcharges, for trucking..... where the hell is this going to take us.......

[isawlogs]

 I bought 25 liters of diesel the other day.  33,75$  That would be 6 gallons (US Liquid) and 4.83441 pt (US Liquid) That comes to 5.08$/US gallon .

   Bull , hope it makes you feel better .....  sure makes me steam to see the price of fuel higher then gas 

[bull]

time for a transportation strike...... start with food first maybe it will wake people up......

boy the dumbing down of America has kicked into high gear !!!!
keep paying their price and they will keep jacking it up !!!!
supply and demand principals do control markets!!!

[isawlogs]

 All of North America is dependent on fuel for transporting of goods ... wether it be boat , train or truck . They have us where they have always wanted     What are we to do ... stop the trucks from rolling ... it would take about three days to empty the stores ... they have no back-store in wich stock was kept like it was only a few years ago ...
  All of our needs are on trucks that deliver on a day to day basis , those oil compagnies know this too well and take advantage of this to the max . When this rolling back-store started 15 or so years ago fuel was cheap very affordable so the idea behind it was fisable and for the most part a good one , untill the greed of those that control the fuel took hold .   
   

[mad dog]

                                                                                                                                                            I live in central Maine,I bought oil in sept.Ikeep the furnace on 60 and keep the woodstove just  a huming,I am heating my domestic hot water off my furnace.like to change that.                                                                                                                                                                   A few years ago My wife and I went to florida in jan.I would go jogging in the morning,then come back and jump in the pool.I was getting out one morning and tis guy said Where are you from ,Alaska? I said no I am from Maine He replied same differance!how can you swim in water this cold? I said our lakes are colder than this even in aug.

[bull]

Guess we all need to look at the new word in the dictionary, LOCAVORE......
Live local, buy local,survive and sustain locally, it was done in the past.... sounds like the old american dream !!!!

WOW, is someone fighting a war without guns,stop transportation, ruin the value of the dollar, cut their supplies, cut out food, suck the water dry, and on and on...


America is heading down the drain and doesn't even know it... and the best part is we taught them how to do it........ MAYBE ITS TIME FOR A WAKEUP CALL......

[snowman]

On the bright side    as heating fuels goes up so does value of firewood. As log prices plummet I may go into firewood business. The sky is never actually falling but every cloud does have a silver lining. Don't get me started on my stocks though, maybe my silver lining theory has an exception.

[submarinesailor]

Norm,

I’m at home and all my books are at work.  BUT, if I remember correctly: there are 3,413 BTUs in 1 KW.

Bruce

[musikwerke]

The whole USA is way overdue for a wakeup call.  Only this time when it happens it's going to be rough ride for all of us.  I won't be surprised if a lot of folks won't be able to handle it and that could make for a very bad situation.  This mindset that 'growth' is the only way to live and do business has to change.