This is a heating oil chart
Those numbers are the price-per-gallon in dollars.
In April 2020, heating oil cost $0.84 a gallon.
Today, just three-and-a-half years later, heating oil costs $3.40 a gallon.
That is a 400% increase.
Have a nice day.
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Oh crap, it’s getting to be about time to fill the propane tank. lol
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Do you use heating oil?
Not anymore. But I did years ago.
Pretty common in the NE.
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Is that a typo? From the graph, it would appear to be about $0.95 a gallon.
But also from the graph, it looks like around $2/gallon would be a more representative amount on which to compare the percent increase.
Maybe I had the cursor in the wrong spot.
Lemme check.
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Yup cursor in wrong spot.
corrected now.
Hat tip.
How does it work? Is there a big barrel of oil at your house that gets topped of monthly, quarterly, whatever?
at least global warming will help the homeless stay warm this winter
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Tell Trump’s BFF, MBS.
Yes
Examples of the tank and the truck are pictured below.
Heating oil is basically just slightly-less refined kerosene or diesel or jet fuel.All four are basically the same thing. In a pinch, all of the above are interchangeable.
Below is a 2022 price chart from a furnace company that sells home furnaces of every type and fuel (They have no incentive to favor one over another.)
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I have family members who have to use propane etc, so glad I dont have to fanny around with it.
Though I am considering buying a generator for those just in case scenarios. We had a power outage for a couple of days due to a storm and spent a lot of time in my car with the air con on playing on my laptop.
With hindsight should have gone to a hotel but knew as soon as I forked out for a hotel power would come back on.
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Interesting. I have only ever had NG furnaces. Thanks!
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The basic thing is:
Every once in a while you’ll read a news story to the effect that
- “Gasoline prices have risen a little, but diesel prices have risen a LOT”
or - “Gasoline prices are up a lot but diesel and jet fuel prices are through the ROOF!”
Well, diesel, jet fuel, kerosene, and heating oil are all the same thing.
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What thread would be complete without a ,“bUt TrUmP!!”
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Ya think we the sinners would get some credit for it…?
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And to think libs want us all to use electric heat…after all electric is clean energy and environmental safe to prevent global warming…I mean climate change.
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Keep in mind gasoline is basically a waste byproduct when you make diesel, kerosene, jet fuel and heating oil.
Libs still haven’t figured out what to do with it when they ban all gas engines.
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I did not know that.
Before the invention and proliferation of the gasoline powered internal combustion engine, gasoline was burned off in open pits as a waste product, much like natural gas used to be from producing oil wells.
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