In article , Bob G wrote:


Check out the cost of buying the tank. It may take ten years before you
save enough on the price of fuel to break even.

I just purchased a tank a few weeks ago...400 pound tank...a little
over 100 gallons..brand new @275 bucks...

Here in central Indiana where I live, a hundred gallons is a *very* small tank
for a residence. You'd be filling that sucker at least once a week in January
and February. In Minnesota, probably more like every two or three days.

Lots of people around here have *thousand*-gallon tanks. Try pricing one of
*those*.

Just the difference in my
last 100 gallon purchase would have been 60 odd bucks..

IIRC, you posted that there was a difference of some 30 cents a gallon; that
makes a difference of 30 dollars per hundred gallons, not 60.

since I filled
it 3 times last winter payback time is slightly less then 10 years
....more like about 1-2 years...

If you can get through a winter on three fills of a hundred-gallon tank, then
you should quit complaining and count your blessings. :-) Either your house is
unbelievably well insulated, or you live in a climate with *very* mild
winters. We're in a home with natural gas now, but in our previous home with
LP, we needed five and sometimes six fills of a FIVE hundred gallon tank to
get through the fall and winter.

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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

Nobody ever left footprints in the sands of time by sitting on his butt.
And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?