John F. wrote:
Hello Posters........
I'm trying to get a overall picture of what the costs are to heat a
house with natural gas vs oil (even propane costs). I've always
heated (including hot water) with oil. I understand the amount of
heat delivered by oil vs gas and elecric is more,

I assume you mean units of heat per cost unit?

but with natural
gas prices actually down and oil simply sykrocketing and never going
to go down, does it make more sense to buy a pre-existing home that
is heated by natural gas hot water baseboard and not oil?

It depends on where you are and what efficiencies you are getting with
each source. It is a simple math questions once you get the numbers.

Obviously
the variables of how much fuel is used depends on a myriad of
conditions. So I'm trying to get a comparison of what equal
conditions might cost for one vs the other. I'm in the extreme
western part of mid-upstate NY. I don't know what an equal amount of
heat generation for the different fuels cost. Right now my oil
supplier wants $2.99 a gallon for a futures price on oil and $2.40
per gallon on propane through May of 2007; Idon't know what NYState
E&Gas charges for natural gas. I''d appreciate any input and any
specific examples from posters who may have switched from one to the
other. Thanks in advance for the usual fine input here. John

You need more numbers including the efficiencies of the heating units.

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Joseph Meehan

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