How much does your fuel oil cost?

[1DART440]

I just got the oil tank filled today and the price was shocking......99.99 cents per liter or approx. $3.85 per US gallon.
What is eveyone else paying?
They say our winter is going to be colder than normal  .
I just wonder want gasoline is going to cost this spring. Maybe I should be thinking about a turbo on a /6 instead of a 500 inch stroker.

[Dartsport]

Around $3.10 a gallon for heating oil . I just installed  a Reznor waste oil burner in my business last week. It will pay for itself in a little over 2 years.

[1DART440]

I would expect to pay more in Canada. I guess it is time to start burning trees again!!!!!!!!!!! I was heating with wood 8 years ago with an outdoor furnace of my own design but my insurance company got so nuts I had to give it up. I burned 6 cords of birch all winter (high eff. design). Even buying the wood was only $550 per year, now I pay $2000 for oil. I might have to look into solar, the sun is free.

[abodyjoe]

had my tank filled a couple weeks ago and it was $3.30.   


  exactly why i put a wood stove in the house.  the heat has only run twice so far and that was just because we were out all day...  right now its cold and windy out and its 70* in the house right now...  gotta love it...    bought about 3 cords of wood and got a ton free that i have to cut and split...

[68_Val_Sedan]

YUP ... installled a new 96% efficient propane boiler and with indirect water heater this year ... burried a 1000 gal tank in the yard ... proapane was only 1.70 a gal when i bought it ... the boiler heats the house and it also has an indirect water domestic wate heater ... been on since mid september and the guage on the tank hasn't moved yet ... last year i used 600 gallons of oil just to heat the house, and electricity for the hot water, the electric bill dropped $50 a month just by removing the hot water heater  ... can't wait to see how much propane i use when i have the tank filled next summer.  BTW propane is still only 2.20 a gallon right now ... 

[A13Dart]

$3.19 per gallon of #2 fuel oil.  Gasoline takes more refining than fuel oil, go figure.

[NYrr496]

3.19 a gallon if you buy more than 100 gallons. Damn, just a few years ago I was payin' 99 cents.

[Jim_Lusk]

Fuel oil?

[MVRCorp]

I just got the oil tank filled today and the price was shocking......99.99 cents per liter or approx. $3.85 per US gallon.
What is eveyone else paying?
 They say our winter is going to be colder than normal  .
I just wonder want gasoline is going to cost this spring. Maybe I should be thinking about a turbo on a /6 instead of a 500 inch stroker.

Where are you? I assume your "in the great white north".
 

[NYrr496]

Dartsport, I used to heat my diesel generator shops strictly by waste oil. The old place was 14,000 square feet with 24 foot ceilings. I used two burners. The last place was 7000 square feet with 14 foot ceilings. Neither place had a lick of insulation and I was able to keep them at 65 degrees when it was 20 outside. We became so good at making heat with waste oil that we had to build our own unit. We kept burning the fireboxes out of the commercially available ones. We took a 275 gallon tank, welded 2" pipes through the top, end to end, mounted a fan at one end. Mounted the burner head below the fan and made a firebox from 1/2" plate. We added a sliding door on the side. If you have the kind that uses shop air to force the oil through the nozzle, filter the air. Use a water seperating oil filter and check it often, don't let any antifreeze get in there. Also remove the little preheating coil. It gets coked up and you'll get NO flow. When it used to get real cold, we'd cut the oil about 25% with diesel.

[eldubb440]

 THEY say our winter is going to be colder than normal 

are THEY the same buttholes ramming this global warming crap down our throats?

[sunsetdart]

I always pre-pay my fuel oil early in September. My home is very well insulated and i don't burn but 500 gallons a year and thats heating hot water and heat for the house. I paid $2.59 a gallon in September for 600 gallons and will have some leftover. All hail the pink panther and insulation!!!!

[ValiantOne]

$3.25 Here in western Maryland.

I had a heat pump installed last year with a fossil fuel switch on it. Pretty cool The heat pump runs until it gets too cold and then the oil kicks in. Saved me a TON of money last year. And to think I really only installed it for the central AC! 2 Birds with one stone

[Ivor383]

About $4 a gallon over here in...that's about two of our English pounds!

[ValiantOne]

Dartsport, I used to heat my diesel generator shops strictly by waste oil. The old place was 14,000 square feet with 24 foot ceilings. I used two burners. The last place was 7000 square feet with 14 foot ceilings. Neither place had a lick of insulation and I was able to keep them at 65 degrees when it was 20 outside. We became so good at making heat with waste oil that we had to build our own unit. We kept burning the fireboxes out of the commercially available ones. We took a 275 gallon tank, welded 2" pipes through the top, end to end, mounted a fan at one end. Mounted the burner head below the fan and made a firebox from 1/2" plate. We added a sliding door on the side. If you have the kind that uses shop air to force the oil through the nozzle, filter the air. Use a water seperating oil filter and check it often, don't let any antifreeze get in there. Also remove the little preheating coil. It gets coked up and you'll get NO flow. When it used to get real cold, we'd cut the oil about 25% with diesel.

NYrr, you don't have any rough drawings of that do you? I have been reading up on some really crude waste oil heaters, but I'd like to build something with an actual heat exchanger and fan, etc.

If you relocated the main oil tank inside the shop and ran and insulated line out to the unit, would it still be necessary to add diesel fuel in cold weather?


C

[Duster Five-O]

Fuel oil?

Same here They don't even put furnaces in houses down here

[eldubb440]

If you relocated the main oil tank inside the shop and ran and insulated line out to the unit, would it still be necessary to add diesel fuel in cold weather?


 

my tank is outside, no insulation on the lines; i seen my oil delivery guy add a little something to my tank; i forget what he said it was, ill ask again. i never have a gelling problem

[NYrr496]

ValiantOne, I do not, I don't even think my brother is using that burner any more. If you want, I can draw up a plan and e mail it to you. Waste lube oil gets too thick if it's too cold, I had the two storage tanks inside the shop. I used to bring the 55 gallon drums inside a day in advance to warm up before I added them to the tanks.

I used to change oil in Cat engines that had 110 gallon oil pans, so I burned plenty of oil. Then again, I was heating a lot of space.

[73swinger]

.83 cents a litre, I'm thinking about running it in my truck...diesel at the pump is $1.08 or so

[mopar-addiction]

Just got filled up monday 12-3-07 $3.10 per US gallon in southern New Hampshire.

[1DART440]

.83 cents a litre, I'm thinking about running it in my truck...diesel at the pump is $1.08 or so

I wish it was 0.83 in Northern Ontario...that is cheaper than it was last year.

[73swinger]

i live near toronto...still feels pretty north to me these days especially compared to most of the others on here

[MVRCorp]

The weather here is nuts. 73 today.....normal....mid 40's. Crazy......nat. gas for us but I have my windows open today. Took the Dart out for a cruise yesterday    .......that was cool for Dec.

[yellowabody]

Here in ct its aprox 3.25 a gallon but ill keep stoking the wood stove .

[1DART440]

I just calculated things out...when oil costs 3.85us gallon or 99.99 cents a liter, it is cheaper to use electricity. Our rates are approximately 10 cents/KWHr in Ontario (delivered).
My oil boiler is only 84-85% efficient but an electric one is 100. Actually electricity is about 9% cheaper than oil for me right now.