• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Unfortunately, the graph below is more accurate on heating oil prices. Right now - Sep 17 - it’s basically twice ($5.06) what it cost when Biden left.

    These prices obviously fluctuate, but I doubt demand for heating oil in the NE is going down in the coming months, barring an extremely warm winter, I guess. I won’t pretend to know what will happen on the supply side but it’s pretty clear that donnie doesn’t give a fuck about anyone struggling to pay for it.

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        3 days ago

        So I’ve never lived somewhere with heating oil used. I tried to look it up and saw that during the cold months houses could use 150-250 gallons of oil… Is that right? That would be ~$1200 I would assume from December-March for many people…

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          Yeah, easy if that’s your only source of heat. I also have heat pumps and a wood stove, so hopefully will not need to fill up my tank this winter. 🤞

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          I can’t remember how big our tank was, but years ago, one year we emptied our tank really quick in a rented house with single pane windows that we hadn’t put up plastic coverings over the windows. We didn’t do that again lol.