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The price of heating a greenhouse....
I was just wondering what type of fuel people are using in their greenhouses
and what the cost per unit is where ever you are... I'll start Last summer I locked in a price cap rate of $1.499 per gallon of fuel oil. Most of the winter it was delivered at a cost of $1.479 per gallon but in February it went to the cap rate and stayed there. I just received a notice that I can lock in a rate of $1.949 per gallon through April 0f 2006 if I act quickly. Are heating oil prices this high everywhere? I am not going to admit how many gallons I use a winter, so if you ask I will pretend I didn't see. |
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Al,
If each bad adware/spyware blocked in Spybot 1.3 were a gallon (through today's update)... would that equal the number of gallons you use a year? I will bet I am pretty dam close Tonto. Mick |
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Al wrote:
I was just wondering what type of fuel people are using in their greenhouses and what the cost per unit is where ever you are... I'll start Last summer I locked in a price cap rate of $1.499 per gallon of fuel oil. Most of the winter it was delivered at a cost of $1.479 per gallon but in February it went to the cap rate and stayed there. I just received a notice that I can lock in a rate of $1.949 per gallon through April 0f 2006 if I act quickly. Are heating oil prices this high everywhere? My oil price was 1.84 when I filled the tank for the house in February. I don't have a contract price, though... No idea where it is now, I suspect it is at least 2.00 a gallon. I wouldn't be surprized if it is more. I'll wait until July or so to fill it, maybe it will be cheaper. I am not going to admit how many gallons I use a winter, so if you ask I will pretend I didn't see. I heat the greenhouse with propane... And it is expensive, too (1.79?). I feel your pain, and I try not to think about how much gas I used this winter... Who needs cold fusion? I'll take hot fusion for the greenhouse... Rob |
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I pay about $0.40 more for propane than does Rob to heat my GH, but about
$0.45 less for oil for my home heating and hot water. Irrespective of the fuel cost, the choice of heater makes a BIG difference. When I replaced my Modine "high efficiency" heater (old design with vertical heat exchanger) with a Reznor (like the Modine "Hot Dawg" but with separated combustion), my fuel consumption dropped like a rock, and I paid for the new heater in less than two seasons based on that savings. Even with the fuel cost being almost double what it was when I bought the heater, my annual expenditure on propane is still lower. -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies, Artwork, Books and Lots of Free Info! "Al" wrote in message ... I was just wondering what type of fuel people are using in their greenhouses and what the cost per unit is where ever you are... I'll start Last summer I locked in a price cap rate of $1.499 per gallon of fuel oil. Most of the winter it was delivered at a cost of $1.479 per gallon but in February it went to the cap rate and stayed there. I just received a notice that I can lock in a rate of $1.949 per gallon through April 0f 2006 if I act quickly. Are heating oil prices this high everywhere? I am not going to admit how many gallons I use a winter, so if you ask I will pretend I didn't see. |
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Al,
Of course you got to use what is available to your location, I got the notice today that my natural gas rate starting in May will be $1.015 up from $0.745 last year. So it will cost me about 35% more to heat the house and greenhouse next year if the weather stays the same. Now I wish I had the geothermal heating system that I was reading about. Good Growing, Gene "Ray" wrote in message ... I pay about $0.40 more for propane than does Rob to heat my GH, but about $0.45 less for oil for my home heating and hot water. Irrespective of the fuel cost, the choice of heater makes a BIG difference. When I replaced my Modine "high efficiency" heater (old design with vertical heat exchanger) with a Reznor (like the Modine "Hot Dawg" but with separated combustion), my fuel consumption dropped like a rock, and I paid for the new heater in less than two seasons based on that savings. Even with the fuel cost being almost double what it was when I bought the heater, my annual expenditure on propane is still lower. -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies, Artwork, Books and Lots of Free Info! "Al" wrote in message ... I was just wondering what type of fuel people are using in their greenhouses and what the cost per unit is where ever you are... I'll start Last summer I locked in a price cap rate of $1.499 per gallon of fuel oil. Most of the winter it was delivered at a cost of $1.479 per gallon but in February it went to the cap rate and stayed there. I just received a notice that I can lock in a rate of $1.949 per gallon through April 0f 2006 if I act quickly. Are heating oil prices this high everywhere? I am not going to admit how many gallons I use a winter, so if you ask I will pretend I didn't see. |
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