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[–] 20 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Yeah, paying much more for heating oil is NBD heading into winter.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 1 week ago (10 children)

    This is going to be devastating in the Northeast. My wife's grandmother relies on heating oil in her home and it has been a struggle to afford for a few years now. This year will be worse.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    Unfortunately, the graph below is more accurate on heating oil prices. Right now - Sep 17 - it's basically twice ($5.06) what it cost when Biden left.

    These prices obviously fluctuate, but I doubt demand for heating oil in the NE is going down in the coming months, barring an extremely warm winter, I guess. I won't pretend to know what will happen on the supply side but it's pretty clear that donnie doesn't give a fuck about anyone struggling to pay for it.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Heating oil average in NY as-of today is over $6/gal. Absolutely nuts.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

    So I've never lived somewhere with heating oil used. I tried to look it up and saw that during the cold months houses could use 150-250 gallons of oil... Is that right? That would be ~$1200 I would assume from December-March for many people..

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    i was going to recommend she invest in one of those portable oil filled radiators, but it looks like the price for those is insane now. got mine for like 20 bucks several years ago and it works extremely (almost too) well, but it look like the one i have is like 80 bucks now. wow.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

    Kerosene? Aren't they incredibly dangerous?

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