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Home heating oil prices

  • 15-11-2012 9:47am
    #1
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    Anyone get Kerosene oil lately? € 455 for 500 litres seems to be the best out there.


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  • #2
    Max Powers
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    Jerry Seinfeld wrote: »
    Anyone get Kerosene oil lately? € 455 for 500 litres seems to be the best out there.


    Where did you get that quote Jerry? looking for some oil too.


  • #3
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    Max Powers wrote: »


    Where did you get that quote Jerry? looking for some oil too.
    Texoil, tramore, and unecol all that price, surely get 450 for cash up front. Price has more than doubled in recent years :-(


  • #4
    Max Powers
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    Jerry,
    There is some sort of promo with top oil where they doin €10 off 1000 L, €5 off 500, not much I know.


  • #5
    Sully
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    I think the price of oil (including petrol) has fallen in a lot of places bar the Waterford area. It might pay you to shop outside of Waterford if it comes to it.


  • #6
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    Sully wrote: »
    I think the price of oil (including petrol) has fallen in a lot of places bar the Waterford area. It might pay you to shop outside of Waterford if it comes to it.[/QUOTE

    Ironic i know but with the price of oil now and the cost of hauling it around the country the local distributors are exactly just that!


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  • #7
    O Riain
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    €455 euro is absolutely scandalous, at that price you seriously need to consider investing in some form of renewable technology. Possibly solar thermal?


  • #8
    gman2k
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    O Riain wrote: »
    €455 euro is absolutely scandalous, at that price you seriously need to consider investing in some form of renewable technology. Possibly solar thermal?

    Jesus man. The sun does not shine when you need heat the most.
    Any 'investment' should be done on the low hanging fruit basis.
    Step 1, buy the cheapest fuel, step 2, increase insulation.


  • #9
    O Riain
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    gman2k wrote: »
    Jesus man. The sun does not shine when you need heat the most.
    Any 'investment' should be done on the low hanging fruit basis.
    Step 1, buy the cheapest fuel, step 2, increase insulation.

    The sun does not have to be shining for Solar Thermal to work, ideally of course it works better with direct sunlight but will work when cloudy and overcast. In the middle of winter it may not be able to provide 100% of your heating/hot water needs(unless you put enough collectors on your roof) but it at least will help you cut down on your bills before oil sky rockets in price. And it will.


  • #10
    honeybadger
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    oil hasent shy rocketed yet goverment tax has


  • #11
    O Riain
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    honeybadger wrote: »
    oil hasent shy rocketed yet goverment tax has

    It will sky rocket. If it was all taxation with no incentives on other technology then there would be reason to complain but as it stands there are good grants available. Starting to sound like I work for a solar thermal company but if people realised how much CO2 we are churning out they'd be shocked. Burning that 500litres of oil for instance will produce 1258kgs of CO2. Thats 1.26 tonnes of CO2


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  • #12
    Ironbar
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    If possible get yourself a stove and use coal,anthracite,wood and bricetts for heating.


  • #13
    snuggles09
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    recently moved and have to get our first lot of oil

    i know there are lots of variables ( size of house, how long you leave it on for etc) but roughly how long would 500 litres last? Are we talking 2 months, 4 months, 6months? I have no clue!


  • #14
    gman2k
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    snuggles09 wrote: »
    recently moved and have to get our first lot of oil

    i know there are lots of variables ( size of house, how long you leave it on for etc) but roughly how long would 500 litres last? Are we talking 2 months, 4 months, 6months? I have no clue!

    How long is a piece of rope? Seriously....


  • #15
    tele2
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    Kerosene with Corrib Oil Gort € 885 for 1000 l and €900 with Corrib Ennis. Is this unusual. Thought it would have been the same price. Towns are 20 miles apart


  • #16
    wellboy76
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    Long way to go for a drop of oil


  • #17
    kuang1
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    Hey all.
    Anyone got recommendations on suppliers? Who's offering best prices at the moment?


  • #18
    Speak Now
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    kuang1 wrote: »
    Hey all.
    Anyone got recommendations on suppliers? Who's offering best prices at the moment?

    Paul Foley oils is 410 for 500 litres according to his website, was comparing it to the prices on cheapoil.ie and it seemed competitive. Didnt get it myself yet though, Its like car insurance I ring around telling them best price I have.


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