Tony Read 2 Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Ok, so I got fed up with sitting at home in my jumper, hat and scarf (and all my other clothes before anyone mentions it! ) and went and ordered some heating oil. Cowabunga! What a price! The best I could get is 56.15p per litre plus tax. When you order 1000 litres that a lot of money. Now, the Office of Fair Trading say you need to shop around because there is competition in the market place. Yeh, right! Between the highest and lowest price there was £3.00 difference over 1000 litres, thats a whopping 0.3p per l. The word cartel springs to mind. Rant over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Gilder Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Cheaper to purchase and run a wood burning stove Tony!! Not difficult to scource wood to burn!! (neighbours felled trees, fallen forest wood, the model your clubmate crashed!!!!!!!) Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erfolg Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 I have a wood burning stove, the price of the wood has over double in the year. The other issue is that it needs to be seasoned. This takes about a year under cover, my, does the pile shrink due to evaporation, you would not believe it. You need the space to store it , a flat bed truck as used by tree surgeons holds a lot. The heat output is impressive, the central heating becomes background, running until I get the fire lit. The chimney must be lined, with a liner, mine cost I think about £200. The important bit, is the cost, I reckon on about £300 for the year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codename-John Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Probably still cheaper per watt of heat than mains gas tho i assume ? I did a nice electrical heating job for a client last week, theres some lovely electric radiators on the market these days and boy do they kick out some heat, with economy 7 or whatever it works out fairly cheap to run too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Frank Skilbeck Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 56.15p per litre, works out at around 150 US$ per barrel, the current world oil price is around 85-110US$ per barrel, which is what the refineries have to pay for the feed stock. So the 40-50 US$ is to cover refining, transportation and profit. But refineries have a fairly fixed capacity so if the demand for heating oil goes up so will their price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terence Lynock Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 My son has a Swedish log burner and around Llandovery you can get logs for around 60 quid a ton delivered which lasts him all winter, there are a number of ancient laws that allow you to collect deadwood, driftwood and so on from public areas, dont ignore them as they can save you a lot of money over the year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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David Gilder Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 Posted by Tom Sharp 2 on 21/10/2011 08:33:04: But you are not allowed to collect wood on private property. Not entirely accurate there Tom..... As long as you have the Land Owners Permission, you are ok. Its only if you enter their land without permission that it becomes Tresspassw (unless you live in Scotland where the laws are different for Tresspass!!) So there you have it Tony... Looks like a wood burner is the way to go !!!! Chop Chop!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r6dan Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 But if you have a direct injection Diesel car it will run lovely on heating fuel, that will offset the cost of the heating oil, but mind you you can only run the car on private land Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myron Beaumont Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 Definately a wood burner .We fired ours up this week for the first time since installing it as it was getting a bit chilly.Mind you we do have several acres of woodland.The more we burn ,the better the flying area Myron YO13 forestry dept. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Read Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 I'd LOVE a log burner, trouble is my tiny bungalow just does not have the space. My main gripe is the lack of competition in the oil market place. My first ringaround for prices gave me a difference of 0.02p per litre, yes thats 0.02 pence difference between four companies!!! Cartel? Only by playing one company off against another did I get it up to 0.3p. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken anderson. Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 dont think it matters one jot---what you use for fuel---- your going to get fleeced.... the gov cant do anything about it either...offgem ia also a waste of our(tax payers ) money ... dont forget that world oil prices have dropped a fair wack.... but we are still having to pay top prices..... profiteering is the correct description.... ken anderson...ne..1 ... fleeced dept.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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