Get Your Heating Bill Yet? Is It Making A Dent In Your Tackle Purchases

[RickBomba]

2.05 is good Ross,
I filled up once in December, and I've been shivering for the rest of the winter.
Still got a 1/2 tank left, gonna try to make it on one fillup.
Lots O' cooking around the Bomba house..stews, etc...anything that makes steam.
Later,
Rick

[redcrbbr]

$2.30 a gallon, 200 gallons = killing me

[MoroneSaxatilis]

By the way, shouldn't it be called "heating day degrees" rather than heating degree days? I'm aware of how HDDs are calculated, but let's say the average temp on a particular day is 50. That means that there were 15 heating degree days on that DAY. How can you have X number of DAYS in any one particlar day? Wouldn't it make more sense to say that there were 15 heating day DEGREES on that day?
The nomenclature would then reflect the fact that the temp of your house was 15 DEGREES below the avarage temp for that DAY.
I've always wondered about that.

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by MoroneSaxatilis

By the way, shouldn't it be called "heating day degrees" rather than heating degree days? I'm aware of how HDDs are calculated, but let's say the average temp on a particular day is 50. That means that there were 15 heating degree days on that DAY. How can you have X number of DAYS in any one particlar day? Wouldn't it make more sense to say that there were 15 heating day DEGREES on that day?
The nomenclature would then reflect the fact that the temp of your house was 15 DEGREES below the avarage temp for that DAY.
I've always wondered about that.

Just send someone to read the damn meter, like they did in the old days, that's all I ask.

My meter's outside, and easy to get to. Don't matter if no one's at home--just read the damn thing. I'd rather pay $200 every month than pay $500 one month and get a credit the next.

Same thing with LIPA, our "not-for-profit" electric company. 3 months out of 4 I get an estimated bill, or a card to mark. I wouldn't mind marking the card if Richie Kessel and his political cronies weren't making 6 figure salaries for heading up a "not-for-profit" utility. 2/3rd of LIPA employees make more than 100K a year. Can a few of those leeches and hire some meter readers for $25K a year

[Sea Dangles]

Originally Posted by Mike P

Just send someone to read the damn meter, like they did in the old days, that's all I ask.

My meter's outside, and easy to get to. Don't matter if no one's at home--just read the damn thing. I'd rather pay $200 every month than pay $500 one month and get a credit the next.

Same thing with LIPA, our "not-for-profit" electric company. 3 months out of 4 I get an estimated bill, or a card to mark. I wouldn't mind marking the card if Richie Kessel and his political cronies weren't making 6 figure salaries for heading up a "not-for-profit" utility. 2/3rd of LIPA employees make more than 100K a year. Can a few of those leeches and hire some meter readers for $25K a year

I'll save my opinions about lawyers.I can also look past bitching about the salary of "not for profit" companies(put in dummies so you get bad ideas).But please,try not to belittle meter readers.We have installed over 7,000 transponders for drive-by readings within the past year at our water department and that is a lot of work .
Irony is;.... a lawyer calling ANYONE else "leeches".

[Mike P]

[gone fishin]

Why is everyone bitchin about how much fuel costs -- just a thought, what was in that energy policy that VP Cheney wrote and nobody can get a glimpse of ??? Who are the Pols that are now in office that have MAJOR interests in the OIL industries?? How come a Mass politician can go to Venezuela and make a deal for low cost oil to be delivered to New England when the party in charge lets prices climb right off the wall. How many Billions of dollars are being spent on a 7 year trip to PLUTO? How many homes would that heat?? I think I will shut up as this is not a poitical forum. OR MAYBE IT IS AND WE JUST MISS THE POINT. I wonder how much fuel we burn in Iraq daily ???

By the way, I am on a fixed income and have the same gripes as you. I sometimes have to scrape to pay that @#%#$^%oil bill too.

And while on the subject .. A trip to the ditch with my Wrangler takes almost a tank of gas. I think this year will see less trips to my favorite fishing spots with the cost of gas. I think we will see a new group of politicians next election.