Joey wrote:

Joseph Meehan wrote:

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Take a deep breath and say to yourself, I know prices are going up and
that I will pay more for heating. I will promise myself that I will do all
that I can to conserve all forms of energy. OK breath and move on. :-)

But Joseph, I've already been doing that. I would hate to think how
much higher my last bill ($275) would have been had I not conserved. I
even have the programmable thermostat. Considering gas has already
doubled in cost and electric has slightly increased, what do you think
next year will be like ?

Joey-
If you're in SW Georgia, and you're not living in some 1/2 acre house,
then you've got some more conserving to do.

I live in a 100+ yr old 3BR farmhouse in upstate NY & my utilities
only run about $300 a month. I have an oil furnace, a propane space
heater, stove, dryer & water heater. We keep the house at 70
during the day- set back to 65 at night.

Our electricity has gone from 12 to 16cents a KWh. Oil from $1.99 to
$2.40, and LP from $2.20 to $2.45. [hardly doubled-- but the media is
still screaming about soaring utility costs---- we've had such a mild
winter my costs are just about where they were last year at this
time.]

Note that my electric has gone up the most-- and it has done that in
the past 2 months as my gas & oil have been going down.

The only way to figure out if switching would be feasible-- at current
rates- is to have your suppliers run the numbers. And there are no
guarantees that next year won't be just the opposite.

What are you paying for gas and electricity per unit?

Jim