Heating Oil Prices = Rude Surprise
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Monday, January 9, 2006
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Barry Ritholtz just had his heating oil delivery and the price was a nice $435.52. Ouch. Barry is right, many are going to be in for a rude surprise if they haven’t been following the heating oil/natural gas issue lately.
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Oil delivered today: $520 at 2.349/ gal.
Continuing to burn wood…
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I just learned last week that due to some snafu, our natural gas utility hasn’t been billing us all winter. (I thought my wife was paying the bill, she thought I was, etc.)
So I should get a bill next month for all the gas we’ve been using. Erk.
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Our gas contract was just up for renewal. I think we were paying about 68 cents a therm before and the new rate is $1.42.
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Anderson,
If the bill is very large, call them up, politely explain that they screwed up and ask for a payment plan. If they get prissy about it, start talking about taking it to your local public utility comission for them to figure out. However, chances are it wont get that far. Most utilities have some sort of built in procedure for these kinds of things.
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Chavez appearantly promised to deliver at lower prices for the really poor in some States.
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My gas bill has been climbing… last month it was $150, this month $200. We’re not doing anything different, and there are no leaks in the line. We already keep the heater no higher than 65 — and we’d turn it lower if we weren’t afraid our cats would freeze.
At least we don’t have kids. Yet. But people with children have to keep the heat up higher, don’t they? If I had to keep the house at 72 all winter, I’d be bankrupt.
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Thanks, Steve. I was hoping I could work out something like that, though Mississippi utilities seem to be managed by Soviet refugee bureaucrats, insofar as customer service is concerned.
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