How long does heating oil keep?

Yes, all about the same. In fairness the global price had dropped by the time it was delivered, guess which price I had to pay :(

The online quote won't work for me. I tried my post code, but it comes back with: "It appears that we cannot quote for your postcode online". I tried other post codes both in and out of area, but the response is always the same.

MM

I'm wondering if it won't be better to eke out the oil until the spring and use an ambient fan heater, given that the price of leccy is now supposed to work out cheaper. Or is oil just going to rise and rise?

MM

Electricity is now cheaper? Does anyone have a handy figure for heat energy produced per litre of heating oil?

I just tried a Bristol postcode and it worked fine.

And how about Calor Gas?

OK, found those for myself now...

• Kerosene (28.sec) = 10.35kWh / litre
• Gas Oil (35.sec) = 10.85kWh / litre

So assuming 33p/l for 35sec that would give 10.85kWh for 33p or

This is very slightly cheaper than I can find for "night-rate" electricity, but you would have to pay higher rate during the day. It is about half the price of "standard" electricity.

John Schmitt

Right sort of ballpark. Just calculated /_\H for decane as a guesstimate.

Yes.

I broadly agree with that. I am not a financial whizz-kid, but my guess is that the price of fuel is likely to remain high until spring. Winter is setting in in the Northern hemisphere where the majority of energy consumers are.

John Schmitt

Try PE23 5JJ, PE25 3LL, HP10 9HB - none works.

MM

In article , Rob Morley writes

That might be because they are based in Bristol!

In article , MM writes

I doubt that electricity is cheaper and probably never will be and do you really think other fuels and going to stay at the same price? all are moving up.

Try

Crude prices have fallen, and are still falling - peak demand is in summer (petrol/hoilidays) and in late winter (Jan/Feb/March) (hetaing)

In the USA, transport exceed heatingf consumption by about 5:1

Here we may say te average household of two people does 15,000 miles a year at 30mpg, or around 500 gallons of diesel/petrol..thats about 1900 litres of fuel...on domestic mileage alone..never mind te cointrbution of all those trucks bringing your food to the supermarket...the average small house probably burns what - 1500 liters of diesel a year? I burn a lot more, but its a big house...

Anyway...the fact is the prices are coming down, and my best guess is they will come down furher, bottoming out around Early December...and rise for Xmas...and drop a little aftrer..before slowly climbing to ghastly heights in the spring...

Use an onluine quoter lkike boilerjuice.com to see how it all going, and if you can get sub 30p, take it.

Elwectricity is made mostly from gas, coal and nuclear power.

Apart from nuclear, the rest are all going up

Electricity will ALWAYS be more expensive than fuel, until its NOT made from fossil fuel.

The days of 'free nuclear electricity' atre long gone...

Do you think that might be why I tried a Bristol postcode?

In article , Rob Morley writes

Do they deliver outside of the Bristol area?

Yesterday I got a quote from them for 31.42 pence/litre. Today's quote is 30.75! That's a change of around 2%, which is to my mind significant. How can the price fluctuate so much in a single day?

Predictions for tomorrow's?

MM

"It appears that we cannot quote for your postcode online. However, that doesn't mean we can't deliver to your address. Please contact us on 0845