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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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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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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