The Think Tank

so this is sort of dismal.  Hopefully the prices will come down to at least what it was last fall.  Otherwise, we better all put aside a few extra scheckels to warm hearth and home this winter.

It has been a long time since my last post.  The price of oil was so high, it was over 4.00 per gallon of home heating oil,  4.13 the last time I checked.  I was so discouraged I just quit checking.  No way was I going to pay that much,  no way I could afford to pay that much.

So the prices have been falling rather steadily, albeit slowly, for about 2 weeks now.  We used 300 gallons this year, the last 100 gallons being purchased on February 23rd, 2011 for 3:47 per gallon.  Not the highest we have ever paid but close.  My friend and neighbor had to pay well over 4.00 per gallon for his last 100 gallons in March.

I will try to keep you posted as the summer progresses, and it nears time for us all to gear up for winter yet again.

 so the price fell, that is good.  The home heating oil price, remained the same.  Hopefully the prices will continue to drop.  If they go low enough, I will get some more.

In the olden days,  not that long ago, we always filled the tank.  We bought 217 gallons this year,  5 gallons less than last year, for 100 dollars more.  Ouch

I ordered oil today.  The only good thing I can say is I did not pay as much as my neighbor.  Two months ago she paid 3.18 per gallon.  Today I paid 2.76 per gallon.  So I got 5 gallons fewer than I did last year, for 100 dollars more money.  Ouch.

That being said, the price has been dropping steadily for about 4 days.  Now it did not drop wildly, as I had hoped, but it did drop.  And with the weathermen all saying the temperature will drop and we may even see snowflakes on the valley floor, I HAD to order.  And, as luck would have it the price of oil went up today, and it made up all the ground it lost in the past week.  How does it do that?

Prices dropped slightly today    crude is at 74.39 per gallon    and home heating oil is 2.0049