Concerns are rising that supply shortages and soaring prices will leave families in the cold this winter, particularly in New England, which is more reliant on heating oil than other parts of the country.
Chris Herb, president of the Connecticut Energy Marketers Association, told Bloomberg recently that heating oil wholesalers are beginning to limit allocations for retail suppliers.
Blue states suffering from the consequences of their voting huh? Whoda thunk it.
ReplyDeleteThe article says diesel is chemically similar to heating oil. Wrong, it is the exact same fuel. The only difference is the dye added to heating oil because diesel is taxed as motor fuel, and it is a big fine if you get caught with untaxed dyed heating oil in your truck fuel tank. Because I have been unable to absorb the huge financial hit of a heating oil delivery, I buy 10 gallons of diesel a week and pour it in my 330 gallon home oil tank. More expensive per gallon for sure, but I am able to spread out the cost. The 10 gallons easily heats my home for and hot water for the week, and I have a 5/8 tank buffer so I don't run out.
ReplyDeleteBuy agricultural diesel or at least apply for a refund on motor vehicle diesel that you buy
DeleteCan't you buy dyed fuel at your local bulk plant? I would think you could.
DeleteRed dye off the road, Green dye on the road. I've a two-fifty gal tank for off the road diesel.
DeleteFake news. We have our strategic oil reserve to help average citizens, right?
ReplyDeleteSure do, Joey.
DeleteThis is exactly what they voted for in '20. Please do not complain when the heating oil runs dry. They did not understand that they were voting for this which is a good reason to stop letting them vote... Eventually the civil and moral will have to make the decision to continue to supply the uncivil and immoral to our own detriment or to stop and let them starve on their own. It will not be an easy decision. It is time to deny the money changers their ability to add the value they keep.
ReplyDeleteheating oil and diesel are essentially the same thing. but the idiot in the white house is making sure we only have 29 or so days of diesel available.
ReplyDeleteAnyone think the fucking D.C. swamp politicians of either party give a shit?
ReplyDeleteAs the attached chart in the article clearly identifies, inventories started taking a nosedive the second Slow Joe got 'elected'. What a coincidence.
ReplyDeleteThe only positive thing about this story is that the region that will be most affected by the skyrocketing heating oil costs will be the liberal Northeast. Biden Country.
Here at Northeast Gas, Power & Gas, we don't discriminate; you're all gonna freeze. Here's two gift cards to Taco Bell.
ReplyDeleteIn my new job as a bulk delivery driver I'm seeing customers we haul for running out of allocation. Sometimes I can switch from contract to rack price * to get the load.
ReplyDelete* insider term for this load will cost more.
As I suggested before, get on auto fill with your provider. The call to deliver folks are going to be the last served.
This is good, because they are getting what they voted for. NY state blocked pipelines that could have supplied them because oil is bad. Give the voters of the northeast what they want.
ReplyDeleteMy solution is biomass. A small steam engine running on 1 or 2 greenies per day could power a home. If the greenies run out, use lawyers. They're replenishable.
Not all of us in the northeast are what you think we are. "We" didn't vote for this. As is the case in many other places, Maine was slowly overrun by folks that relocated here and along with our own weak minded have a vote. As I'm very sure that no one is going to come to the rescue, it is what it is.
DeleteThe CEO of the Pilot Flying J gas stations was called before congress a year ago to answer why gas prices were going up. He said the railroad told him they were going to cut his deliveries by twenty percent. Less gas, higher price. This was before a biden shutting off the oil taking affect. So I think alot of shortages will be manufactured by the railroad industry playing ball with the administration. Makes sense since they are still negotiating their contract.
ReplyDeleteYou may have something there. The recent drop in Gasoline prices may be the result of this commie admin forcine the refiners to drop their price for the vote. Allowing them to raise diesel prices which won't really impact anybody until after the election when the cost of transportation hits the product on the shelves.
DeleteUp here in Maine, the differential between gas and diesel is running about $2.50.
Fucking scumbag commie-dems.
Time to start converting Democrats into home heating fuel.
ReplyDeleteThere's nothing there with BTUs.
ReplyDeleteThey're all burnt out.
A guy in Canada has developed a process to turn plastic water bottles into fuel that can be burned in a diesel engine. Of course no one will fund him or buy his idea because that would make sense and solve 2 problems. Plastic waste and fuel shortages.
ReplyDeleteJust this weekend laid in another 200# of coal.
ReplyDeleteTractor supply has little supply but I buy from a local feed supply store, they always have plenty.
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I topped off my heating oil a few weeks ago, $1000 for 250 gallons of #2. Rice coal went from 250 a ton a year ago to 450 a ton last week
ReplyDeleteWe had a coal furnace in the basement when I was a kid, still remember my parents hauling ashes outside
DeleteI heat with propane. I fill up in August because that's when the price is lowest. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case this year. I knew to go ahead and get it anyway because the regime might do with propane what they're doing with heating oil now.
ReplyDeleteAs SteveP mentioned above, propane - and heating oil - are lowest in August in a normal year. (Do we ever have normal years any more?) I watch prices - see here -
ReplyDeletehttps://www.eia.gov/petroleum/heatingoilpropane/#itn-tabs-2
and buy a contract, usually in August, but depending upon events, such as the Suez Canal being closed, or having a blithering idiot elected to be leader of the Free World. Getting a contract locking in a price for your usual annual usage - for me it's about 700 gallons - is a big ticket all at one time, but it usually saves money as the price goes up during the heating season.
I heat with wood. I normally have enough trees fall in a year to heat the house for the season. The only costs are the chain saw, the log splitter, and a bit of gas/oil. I learned how to sharpen my chains and the chain on my saw now has lasted two years. The equipment lasts a decade or more and it takes about two gallons of gas and a gallon of bar oil to put up a full cord of wood; I burn 4 to 6 cords of wood a year. My stoves have lasted 10 years and are still going strong. My labor is free to me in cost, but the years are adding up.
ReplyDeleteIt took me forever to learn how to sharpen a chain for some reason, then one day it just popped in.
DeleteMy poor neighbor still can't do it and I bet he's got a half dozen dulled up chains in his garage. One of these days I'll go over and sharpen them for him.
The best thing Oregon (chain) ever did was to etch the proper angle on the back of the cutter teeth.
DeleteDon't forget to take the rakers down occasionally as the chain wears down. A sharp cutter doesn't do much good if the raker won't let it reach the wood.
Storm- I burn almost as much as you and my back has finally gotten so bad that I can't run a saw anymore. But lucky me, I've got a guy just up the hill from my house that's selling oak for roughly the equivalent of $200 a cord. It's odd lengths, cut by the tree trimmers contracted to PG&E and he splits and sells it.
DeleteAnyway, with the cost of fuel I'll bet my cost to cut and haul a cord from the family place I used to cut on is the better part of that same $200, at around three trips per cord.
I've still got the original chain on my Husqvarna and haven't had to take the rakers down at all. I'm still throwing nice chips right after I sharpen it.
DeleteI do carry a spare Oregon chain for it though.
I have to admit, I cheat a bit on the sharpening side. Some time ago (2 years, maybe?), I bought a Stihl branded manual sharpening tool that includes 2 round files and a flat file. Sharpens the chisels and reduces the rakers on the same cut. My sharpening efforts were very bad before this innovation. Ten minutes or so to sharpen a chain and I can do it in the field so I tend to keep the chains sharper. I bought some extra files just in case. I can buy the device at the local co-op for less that it costs online and I help keep the local co-op folks in business. Oh well, sorry to prattle on but that tool is a game changer.
Deletehttps://www.stihlusa.com/products/chain-saws/filing-tools/2in1file/
That's pretty cool. I'll have to swing by the co-op and pick one up. Maybe two - one for me and one for my neighbor.
DeleteThey come in two sizes. Make sure you get the correct one. One works for standard chains and the other works for the bigger saws used by the commercial folks. I have two, one for my workbench and one for my gadget bag that goes with me when I am in the field.
DeleteThanks. My Husqvarna has a 20" bar.
DeleteActually, it is not the bar length. The chisels are smaller on the non commercial saws and the diameter of the files is the deciding factor. I am sorry if you know this, but it took me a bit to figure it out. I think they call it pitch or something like that. The file I use is .325 inches (4.8 mm) in diameter. The part number is 5605 750 4304. The larger one is 3/8 files (5.2 mm).
DeleteI think the pitch on my chain is .325", but I'll take my file down for comparison.
DeleteIt's hard for me to remember anymore - I'm on my 3rd saw since I've moved here and every one of them had a different pitch.
The first one was ancient and I burned it up, the second one was a nice Echo that lasted about a year before I ran it over (long story) and now I've got the Husqvarna.
I only buy Stihls now. It is easy to get parts and every storm clean up crew in the US uses Stihl saws. All of the commercial guys I have seen use Stihls. I bought my first one after I bought an Echo that would vapor lock every time it ran out of gas. I could cut for 20 or 30 minutes and then the saw was dead for a couple of hours.
DeleteI would guess that the Huskies are .325 for non-commercial saws. My normal Stihl uses a 20 inch bar, but I have a 16 inch bar for close work.
My Echo ran like a raped ape. I had no complaints about it at all. I was looking at Stihl saws but we were tight on money at the time so I took a couple steps down.
DeleteI don't remember why I chose a Husqvarna over a Stihl this time around, but I have no complaints with it. Hopefully it'll last me the rest of my life.
And yeah, I forgot about going to the co-op when I went into town this morning.
I heard a rumor there will be blackout too. They will be up to 6 hours each.
ReplyDeleteMight just be New England, I live in Maine like those other two commenters.