The price of heating fuel where I Live is $3.53 per gal for #1 heating fuel

[Winterblues]

I have a thousand gallon tank that Never ever ever gets under five hundred gallons. Last time I filled up I took 460 gallons and my bill was over $1600. This stimulus check I get if I even get one will not even buy me 300 gallons of heating fuel and they think I am going to rush out and spend spend spend...:crazy: It will help to keep me warmer for a few months though...I guess that is something...Hardly an economic stimuli though...

[bananas]

1. Why do you have a palm tree avatar when you live in Alaska?

Just curious in case there is an interesting story.
Welcome to DU.

[Winterblues]

7. Notice my name

It is my daydream....Snowing here now and predicted to have a foot by nightfall..going to be in the teens and below.

[havocmom]

2. You won't get any Stimulus Check in time to keep you warm this winter

Bank it to help NEXT winter, or when taxes come due in April of 09.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. And just think...

Of what releasing some of that unprecedented amount of oil that sits in Louisiana and Texas salt caverns(The Strategic Oil Reserve) would do, if it was targeted for heating oil distillation?

Of course, that will never happen, as that reserve is administered and controlled by The Koch Brothers, one of whom is married to Doro Bush.

[Squatch]

4. How much is #2 heating fuel?

[Winterblues]

8. I don't know at the moment..only use #2 in the summer

It gels up in cold weather

[pscot]

5. $3.53 a gallon

and we set it on fire. Maybe we need to rethink this.

[madokie]

6. every time I read something like this the first thing that comes to mind is

I sure am glad I have a wood pellet stove for heat. we will burn less than 400 bucks worth of pellets this year and that is keeping the house warm. thermostat set at 74 degrees 24/7 ;-) and that my friend makes me smile

[Broadslidin]

9. The abandoned house White Pickett Fence next door could be used to Build a Nice Cozy Fire...!

:think:

[kestrel91316]

10. Spend as much as you can on INSULATION and new windows.

And maybe just reconsider home size (I have no idea how many sf you have - just something people in this situation need to think about).

Unka Dick lied his head off when he disparaged conservation of energy as merely "virtuous".