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We have an oil-fuelled hot water system, infloor heating. And I am SO GLAD WE DO NOT PAY OUR HEAT BILL! I was talking to our landlord last week (he pays our power bill) and for a 3.5 week period in Nov into December, he paid $898 to heat our house!!! F*%ck me! (and pardon my French) The poor guy is beside himself. I don't get it. We are heat/electricty conscious, turn lights out when we leave a room, we take short showers, use a cold washer, only run the dishwasher when it's full and use a short cycle, we don sweaters before cranking the heat up... I told him this and I hope he believes me! We really are not frivolous. The only thing I can think of is that this spike happeed about the time when the pool system broke down; it was off for about 2 weeks and the whole thing needed to be reheated (it got very cold) so I imagine that used alot of power just bringing it up to the pool temp. Then when we got home from xmas holidays there was something wrong with furnace (it was broken, poor GLoria was freezing!)-- it was a fouled nozzle that had to be replaced- maybe that problem existed then and was making the whole furnace burn rich? Anyway, I feel for him... I really do. What do poor people do? (well ok, they don't worry about heating pools, but seriously). Oil prices and a cold climate do not mix! Natural gas just arrived here-- if I were him I would strongly consider it.
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