On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:48:15 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Liquorice"
wrote:

On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 07:27:42 +0000, Steve Firth wrote:

Of course, the price of oil has since increased (latest price I
have
42.27 pence per litre 16/Mar/2010), whereas the electricity went
down
last year from 12.74 to 11.51 pence a unit.

1 litre of 28 sec. Kerosene = 10 kWH = 43p
10 kWH electricity = 115p

That's an impressive saving you're making there, bub, paying about three
times more to heat your home using electricity than the cost of using CH
oil.

But the he isn't heating the whole house. If you don't heat it you
don't spend any money on fuel for space heating, which is the biggest
consumer of energy.

I'd also say that the OP ought to shop around for his electricity 11
to 12p/unit is expensive, I'm paying 9.03p/unit.

What would you be paying to the same supplier if you were in Spalding,
though? Southern Electric has many different rates, depending on where
one lives.

MM