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RE: Shop heater

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Subject: RE: Shop heater
From: "Bill Gingerich" <wrgingerich@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 20:35:13 -0600
FWIW, I paid $1.65/G when I filled my 1000 gallon tank 2 months back.  That
should heat the 1500 sq. ft. house and the 2100 sq. ft. shop for about 4
months here in south central Minnesota.  With my contract and the budget
plan, I'm paying $190/mo. for propane.  That is 2 furnaces, stove, water
heater, and dryer.  I haven't made a comparison to electricity yet, but I
think the propane is still cheaper - for now, at least.

Bill Gingerich
Lake Crystal, MN



-----Original Message-----
From: shop-talk-owner@autox.team.net [mailto:shop-talk-owner@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of wmc_st@xxiii.com
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 11:55 AM
To: pjhorne@mail.utexas.edu; Shop-Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: Shop heater


At 12:21 PM 12/12/2005, Pat Horne wrote:
>We just had our [propane] tank filled about a month ago and it cost 
>us $1.7/gallon. The driver said that without the contract the price 
>would have been $2.88/gallon! I

Wow, around here (Asheville, NC) the price quoted last month was 
$2.10 - $2.21 / gal.  I've been really ticked off at my company;  I 
have a leased 250/G tank that used to be $85/year, and they upped it 
to $115 due to my low usage.  The only stuff on it is the water 
heater, gas grille, and fireplace.  I think $600 a year is ABSURD for 
that.  I've offered to buy the tank from them, but apparently no one 
there has a friggin' clue what amortization is, and reject what I 
think is a deal.  Electricity here is only $0.078/KWH which I'm told 
is extremely low.

When I grudgingly ordered 100 gal last week, the price had gone up to 
$2.38/G, and the bastards added a $4 "fuel surcharge".  Diesel is 
back down to the same price as always here.  I'm going to mail them a 
check and deduct postage and 3 miles round trip at IRS standard 
mileage to the post office :)  Then tell them to come dig up their 
underground take at THEIR expense when it's empty.  Yeah, I'm bitter.

   -Wayne




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