How the heck are people going to afford heating oil this winter?

They won't stop until you're all homeless.

You can take that to the bank.

Wrap all water pipes with electric heating tape and insulate.

But, there is no proof we will have ELECTRICITY still on at that point.

I am considering getting a secondary source of heat for my house: a propane heater that does not need electricity to operate.

Question: Is propane smart at this point?? Expense?

What happens when "lights out"?

Good advice rouge. I'm in the same boat.

natural gas too...


and you bet if they see smoke they fine for laws under EPA

it WILL come to that! no mistake bro.

My guess:
1) Burn their furniture
2) Then burn the bodies of their vaxxed relatives.

As long as Democrats are wrapped in them first, I endorse this solution.

:ohnoes:

Mostly NE states use heating oil and those states vote Democrat. I hope the freeze because of their stupidity. It's not like this is the 1st time this happened to them by voting for a Democrat.

it is clear that wood stoves are the only answer. I live in old farm house and have oil heating, also, pellet stove. But Thinking to exchange the pellet stove for woodstove as pellet runs on electricity. god help us all!

Yes, but you need to vent it, otherwise you will suffocate in a nice, warm tomb.

The only way to go ! I had one installed a couple of months ago !

Back during the arab oil embargo everyone in Northern New York had to convert to wood.

It was either that, heat with electricity, or go without heat.


Electric heat was very expensive, it could be three times as high as heating with oil, and fuel oil was unavailable most of the time, higher than hell when it was.

Dude! You’re kinda coming out as a “dandy”.

Do you live north or south? If north, I’d prep.
Many propane tanks filled now(before prices go higher) is a good idea.
A Little Buddy heater, or better yet spend this summer installing a wood burner and stocking wood. Do both!


I hate being cold the older I get….

I'm NOT a shill...I've been on this fucking site twenty years on and off...it DOES matter what state you are in... OBVIOUSLY some states are colder than others!! If you're in Michigan where I once lived, you're gonna be in big trouble if you're trying to pay for heat...rather than if you're in my state I moved to .
. Alabama...that's one reason of several I moved south. Can't believe I had to explain this to you

I have a gel fuel fireplace and a wood burner. Depending on how big your house is, and where the plumbing is run, is where you need to concentrate the heat. I have a small house, so between the wood burner cook stove and the gel fuel fireplace, I can keep the pipes from freezing and keep the temp at least tolerable in the house.

Why do yall feel it has to be some certain price?

Food, gas, oil, etc. Just complaints.
Did someone make a promise or guarantee low prices?

Oh no that's in ZAR, the mickey mouse currency of South Africa, where i live. Also, its 500 bucks here for a 3kg canister, they didn't have 5kg ones at Shoprite downtown. My son and i happened to walk down the aisle where the gas canisters are, i guess 3kg is a popular size for heaters and 2 plate stoves. I'm used to using the large tanks on the big gas stove i used to have, those go for 1 900 ZAR but they last for ages. Thing is, about half of the population use electricity not on a monthly municipal account, but bought from a supermarket. The cashier then gives you a slip with digits to enter into a little interfacing box connected to the wall power box. You then get a certain amount of units, depending on how much power you paid for, eg 100/200 ZAR. Once that runs out, your power is auromatically shut off.

Everything here is ludicrously expensive. Well for locals anyway. Tourists with dollars, pounds or euro can Really get some bang for their buck here. The vast majority of the local population survives on a staple diet of maize meal with a fried onion and tomato sauce.

It won't be available or delivered anyway.

That is what we do. But this sure is not the time of year to talk about this.

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Good insulation and blankets!!!

Northern Maine is the exception. Lotta wood up there though.

the most practical or cheapest is have a 250 or 500 gallon
tank and fill it up in the summer time when rates are cheaper.
they are offering me 2.10 per gallon right now. it's much higher in the winter.

Nobody wants to worry about heating your house now but everybody will at the same time soon enough!

Again, I don’t like being cold!!!!!!

We won’t survive!

I’m 54 , Disabled with multiple spine injuries and a crushed sciatic nerve .
My house is SO Freezing cold in the winter and even though I set the thermostat downstairs to 72 it NEVER gets above 63 degrees in the house!! I have NO Heating in the 5 rooms upstairs at all and cannot afford to run an electric space heater , at all .
There is no insulation in the attic whatsoever , only single pane windows which will not lock or even stay closed ( They all fall from the top of the windows and leave gaps ) The landlord knows and will do nothing to help me .
I can’t move due to being disabled ,

When that decrepit, evil , wicked Lying Joe Biden repeatedly stated “ Long , Dark, Winter “ over and over , Many never knew but they are about to find out!

I'm in Florida.. absolute last thing I have to worry about is heat..but the A/C costs are already climbing..by spring here I wonder how bad it'll be..

the wrangler says you can be a drag queen and make pretty good money...even if you are old..