Oil/Kerosene Prepay Price OUCH
We just received our prepay price for the winter. It's the first time I've felt sick over charges. Well, I take that back. The first time was when we received a phone bill from Frontier Communications several years ago for $1,900,221.51: $221.51 for overdue charges and $100,000 per monthly commitment times 19 months of contractual period we had not fulfilled.
All I can say is, thank God we had never signed that contract and were only liable for the $221.51, so the nearly 2 million dollar bill was an error. But this prepay price is not.
$5.079 per gallon!!!
This is for kerosene since our tank is outside. Crap. And the fully prepaid price. The budget program runs $5.129. And I thought $4.67 for regular oil my dad quoted us was bad. Now I'm just wishing we could get an indoor tank. Maybe it's cheaper if we box in our tank with an insulated shed! If we can build it for $184 or less, then yeah. It's cheaper. That's how much we'd save.
My first instinct is to say, "Heck no--I refuse to pay!" I can't in good conscience pay this wretched price and let these price gougers get away with this. On the other hand, I'm looking at our situation saying, "Crap! What else can we do?"
My friend is looking at buying a pellet stove, and even the person I just spoke with at the fuel company about prepay bought one, but in our tiny mobile home, I can't see how we could even think of doing this. There is simply no space.
We considered using an outdoor stove to heat our house when done--it sits outdoors and hooks up to the internal system and runs off wood, stocked once a day. No need to worry about losing power and therefore heat. Maybe we need to look into that for this year since we'll already have to pay at least half the startup price for that just for fuel that will burn up and be gone.
Have you gotten your prepay price this year? How does it compare with ours? I'm curious what they're running across the country, and what kind of alternative fuel sources you're looking at, if you are. Please take two minutes and comment!
Labels: Economy, Finances, Home Maintenance, The Mobile Home, World Events
posted by (Jim and) Brandy Brow @ 7:45 AM
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We have a home in Windham County, and our propane company has not yet offered a pre-pay option for this year...when I called a couple of weeks ago, they said they are possibly NOT doing a prepay choice this year because of the volatility of the market. I am going to call again next week and see whats what.
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