[AT] Profane propane prices; was Fuel prices

[Al Jones]

Charlie,

You don't know how much I wish we could burn wood.  Gotta fireplace, but
when my grandparents built the house in 1951-52, the brickmason didn't
design the fireplace/chimney right and it won't draw like it's supposed to.
Under right conditions, the wind will blow as hard down the chimney as it
will blow outside.  They used a wood stove in the fireplace in the 80's
when wood was so popular and that helped, but didn't solve it.  We hope to
build a house in another couple years so I don't want to put a lot of money
into it but if we do build, I want a nice fireplace/stove/insert.

I guess we'll just warm with gas and pay the price...

Al


> [Original Message]
> From: charliehill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Date: 12/7/2008 10:48:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Profane propane prices; was Fuel prices
>
> Al if it's an old house you don't want to put an electric heat pump in. 
> Stay with the gaspack  or go to a gas or oil FWA furnace.  Better yet, do 
> what I've done this winter and go back to the wood stove, backed up by
the 
> oil furnace.  I try to keep enough fire in the stove to keep the furnace 
> from coming on during the day and early evening.  I let the fire die down
at 
> night and let the furnace run during the night.  So far I'm running the
wood 
> stove on trees that are dead or dying and needed to be cut anyway.  We 
> have/had a bunch of mature dogwood trees but some sort of blight has been 
> killing them off so I'm thining the diseased ones out.  Dogwood is 
> surprisingly good firewood.
>
> Charlie
>
> Charlie
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Al Jones" <farmallsupera at earthlink.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
<at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 6:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Profane propane prices; was Fuel prices
>
>
> > We are due to have our tank filled this week and I dread it.  I kept
track
> > of some of what we bought last year--got so depressed that I didn't keep
> > any records of what we were paying after December!  Anyway on Dec. 19, 
> > 2007
> > we bought 138.9 gallons and paid $359.26--you do the math!!  If it is
that
> > much this coming week, I may call and tell them to come get the #@@#@# 
> > tank
> > and check into an electric heat pump......
> >
> > We are living in my grandparents' old house-they  heated with a combo.
of
> > heating oil and kerosene--had a large oil heater in the hallway and a
> > Ker-O-Sun space heater in the living room.  When my grandmother got too
> > feeble to deal with lighting her heaters my dad had central heat put in
> > with a gaspack.  I love the heat, but it COSTS.
> >
> >
> > Al
> >
> >
> >> [Original Message]
> >> From: carl gogol <cgogol at twcny.rr.com>
> >> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
<at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> >> Date: 12/7/2008 3:53:36 PM
> >> Subject: [AT] Profane propane prices; was Fuel prices
> >>
> >> I have used propane for the last 8 winters and have gotten depressed as
> >> every year the NYMX (NY Mercantile Exchange) price for propane slowly
> > went
> >> up.  This year in July it almost hit $2.00.  In August we were offered
a
> >> lock in price of $2.52 but they were delivering for that amount at the
> > time.
> >> I decided to bet that the price would go down - and it has to less than
> >> $0.70 on the NYMX since early November. I have noted over time that the
> >> retail price has typically been about $1 over the NYMX price.
> >> Got a fillup in the middle of November and the bill said $2.70 - the
> > price
> >> hadn't exceeded $2.52 before then.  I lost my cork and talked with the
> > owner
> >> of the delivery company and told him my observation.  He said blah blah
> >> blah - there is no propane infrastructure to speak of in NY - the NYMX
> >> doesn't mean much and my company is price competitive.
> >> I think that it is a good thing we added a supplemental coal furnace
this
> >> fall, so I don't care as much - $220/ton for coal is almost the heat
> >> equivalent of 500 gallons of propane.
> >> I am interested in hearing more info on propane price from others
though.
> >> Carl Gogol - Manlius, NY
> >> Tasty grazing in the Oran valley of Central NY
> >> AC D14, 914H
> >> JD 5320 MFWD
> >> Kubota F-2400, B7300HST
> >> Simplicity 7116H
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >> From: "Bruce Fallon" <bfallon at whidbey.com>
> >>
> >> >I had my home propane tank filled by Cenex Skagit Co-op 2 weeks ago
and
> > the
> >> > price was $1.79 a gallon. It took 191 gallons to fill the 500 gallon
> > tank.
> >> >
> >> > Depends on the amount and your account also I had 100 gallons put in
at
> > my
> >> > old house just to maintain the home and it was $2.29 because it was
not
> > on
> >> > auto fill and only partial tank load I have a 500 gallon tank there
> > also.
> >> >
> >> > Bruce Fallon
> >> > Langley,WA 98260
> >> > bfallon at whidbey.com
> >> >
> >>
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