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    Drove our 800+ mile trip (each way) to Texas last week and spent $305 total on gas. Surprised as it was lower than we expected.

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    Slight lowering of the price where I am, but diesel/home heating is still significantly higher. I"m scared people will die of hypothermia this winter if things don't change. Even at much lower price points people who can't afford the minimum delivery charge for home heating oil get 5 gallons of diesel at a time from the gas station. But I'm sure the White House will be nice and toasty.

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    We have heating oil, Yppej, and we are trying to figure out how to change that before next winter. Yes, people will die of hypthermia here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yppej View Post
    Slight lowering of the price where I am, but diesel/home heating is still significantly higher. I"m scared people will die of hypothermia this winter if things don't change. Even at much lower price points people who can't afford the minimum delivery charge for home heating oil get 5 gallons of diesel at a time from the gas station. But I'm sure the White House will be nice and toasty.
    It’s probably only really old people that are at risk of dying of hypothermia in their homes next winter. If they don’t die of that they would likely have died of something else anyway so it’s no big deal.

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    Please stop. It's a real problem. We are loathe to run ours, paid a thousand dollars a month to fill it, and we both have COPD. Not a joke.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tybee View Post
    We have heating oil, Yppej, and we are trying to figure out how to change that before next winter. Yes, people will die of hypthermia here.
    Is there any way you could get a ductless mini-split/heat pump? I don't know how big your house is but I'm getting a single zone one for $3600 installed. It could be a good redundant system-i.e., if you still have your oil burner, and the temperatures drop REALLY low you still have the oil burner to supplement.
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    Quote Originally Posted by catherine View Post
    Is there any way you could get a ductless mini-split/heat pump? I don't know how big your house is but I'm getting a single zone one for $3600 installed. It could be a good redundant system-i.e., if you still have your oil burner, and the temperatures drop REALLY low you still have the oil burner to supplement.
    I love this idea! Who did you call to give you an estimate. I especially like the back up heat idea. The single zone one--does it cool, too? Maybe I could get one for upstairs and one for down. House is 1500 square feet and currently has no heat on second floor.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tybee View Post
    I love this idea! Who did you call to give you an estimate. I especially like the back up heat idea. The single zone one--does it cool, too? Maybe I could get one for upstairs and one for down. House is 1500 square feet and currently has no heat on second floor.
    I got quotes from regular local HVAC guys who advertised that they do heat pumps. Yes, the good thing about heat pumps is they are two-firs... you get the cooling with the heat. DH was not happy about that because he didn't want air conditioning, but I had to tell him that it doesn't matter--the technology is such that both are built-in. I don't know if you could even ask for a heat pump that doesn't cool. If you got two zones, it would be more expensive obviously but it wouldn't be double.

    Also, Maine might have rebates you can get--the people who sell and install the heat pump would know what's available.

    ETA: good information here from Efficiency Maine. https://www.efficiencymaine.com/heat-pumps/
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    Quote Originally Posted by catherine View Post
    I got quotes from regular local HVAC guys who advertised that they do heat pumps. Yes, the good thing about heat pumps is they are two-firs... you get the cooling with the heat. DH was not happy about that because he didn't want air conditioning, but I had to tell him that it doesn't matter--the technology is such that both are built-in. I don't know if you could even ask for a heat pump that doesn't cool. If you got two zones, it would be more expensive obviously but it wouldn't be double.

    Also, Maine might have rebates you can get--the people who sell and install the heat pump would know what's available.

    ETA: good information here from Efficiency Maine. https://www.efficiencymaine.com/heat-pumps/
    Thank you!

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    I filled up this morning. The price for regular was $4.52/gal - down about .15 from last week. I had .10 off from my loyalty program, so that helped. It was still just under $50 for 11 gallons.
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