Sometimes you just need to scream!!!

[NJmike PE]

It should be, but it's the common sense of the issue. DOS was 4 days after DOB. Blanket coverage extends for first 30 days. Someone there should have noticed that even without a calculator.

 

[NJmike PE]

I just got a letter in the mail from my propane provider. They want to increase my monthly bill from $107 to $228! Nice! a mark up of 213%, when all I really use it for is my water heater, cooking and dryer. Absolutely absurd!

 

[snickerd3]

Holy cow that's expensive...why are you charged monthly and not just when you need a refill?

It's all those transportation fees to get there to refill the tank.

 

[NJmike PE]

we set up an affordable monthly payment plan. it usually spans 3 months

 

[NJmike PE]

they should be going after the people who are using extra to heat their house due to the extreme cold weather, not people like me.

 

[snickerd3]

you are still using propane though...if they jumped yours so much can you imagine the bill for those that do use to heat?

 

[NJmike PE]

I just spoke with their billing dept. I was told that it is until June and is based on a computer model which is suggesting that I will need 3 more deliveries between now and then. however, should I not need the third delivery, that would change this drastically.

 

[snickerd3]

so come this june you might have a big overpayment credit for the next 6 month estimate...

 

[snickerd3]

our neighborhood is mixed propane/natural gas. There are a half dozen or so of the first houses to be built on our street have propane tanks the rest of us are natural gas.

 

[NJmike PE]

I so wish we had NG. however living in the woods, that is not the case

 

[Capt Worley PE]

I so wish we had NG. however living in the woods, that is not the case

Yeah, my parents had to go with propane because they are out in the sticks.

Still far less expensive than oil heat...or electric. Those folks with heat pumps took it up the keister this winter.

 

[NJmike PE]

I so wish we had NG. however living in the woods, that is not the case

Yeah, my parents had to go with propane because they are out in the sticks.

Still far less expensive than oil heat...or electric. Those folks with heat pumps took it up the keister this winter.

that's me in a nut shell

Propane for cooking, hot water and dryer

oil: forced hot air heat

electric: everything else

 

[Capt Worley PE]

^I hope you're planning to switch the oil burner over the propane at some point.

 

[NJmike PE]

unfort no. It's only 4 years old. I'm stuck with it.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

^OPEC thanks you!

 

[NJmike PE]

yeah,

<---------------------- Not thrilled

 

[Capt Worley PE]

^I imagine not.

My parents still use oil in a smaller structure, but it rarely gets used, so it isn't that big a deal. But when the heater goes (it is fifty years old this year!) I imagine it'll go propane, too.

 

[NJmike PE]

that is the one saving grace for me. My house is a 1200 sf ranch so as inefficient as a FHA OB is, it's still only for a small, single story structure.

 

[mudpuppy]

I so wish we had NG. however living in the woods, that is not the case

Yeah, my parents had to go with propane because they are out in the sticks.

Still far less expensive than oil heat...or electric. Those folks with heat pumps took it up the keister this winter.

Nope. Not right now. Apparently there is a huge propane shortage. In the local paper this week there was an article about it, local suppliers are charging $4 to $6/gallon. At 90% efficiency, $6/gallon propane is twice as expensive as $0.12/kWh electricity.

One guy sent the newspaper a picture of his propane bill..... $2400 for one fill-up.

Some people have contracts with locked-in rates that propane suppliers are refusing to fill.

One of my co-workers has propane, with no contract. At this point he's better off going to buy a bunch of space heaters to heat with.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

I so wish we had NG. however living in the woods, that is not the case

Yeah, my parents had to go with propane because they are out in the sticks.

Still far less expensive than oil heat...or electric. Those folks with heat pumps took it up the keister this winter.

Nope. Not right now. Apparently there is a huge propane shortage. In the local paper this week there was an article about it, local suppliers are charging $4 to $6/gallon. At 90% efficiency, $6/gallon propane is twice as expensive as $0.12/kWh electricity.

One guy sent the newspaper a picture of his propane bill..... $2400 for one fill-up.

Some people have contracts with locked-in rates that propane suppliers are refusing to fill.

One of my co-workers has propane, with no contract. At this point he's better off going to buy a bunch of space heaters to heat with.

That appears to a relatively recent spike. It SEEMS to limited to the northern states, but dunno for sure.

I did stock up on propane tanks for my tabletop grill just in case, though.