No matter what occurs in Philadelphia, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer! Now that's TRADITION!

Here is the tail end of the article in today's Inquirer about how much heating oil (AND GAS) will increase due to a serious misalignment of the planets ...... or something!

They have tips that can help you save four cents a day or something so do not worry about the hundreds and thousands of dollars that citizens, churches, schools, and businesses will have to pony up. They forgot a huge tip: Plan out what you are going to be removing from your refrigerator so you do not have to open the door needlessly. These little tips make my day now that Seinfeld is off the air.

PS~ I heard rumor that the Citizens Alliance is considering raising "the vig."



Joely



Home Heat Tips

Lower thermostats. And turn them down 5 to 10 degrees more at bedtime.

Close and tightly lock windows.

In the daytime, open drapes on the sunny side of the house. Close them at sundown.

Caulk or weather-strip holes and cracks around doors and windows. Close vents or registers, and the door in unused rooms.

Remove any furniture blocking vents.

Insulate your attic, basement, crawl spaces, ceilings and water heater.

Source: PSE&G

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Guess you're not appreciaing the fact that homes in Philly are designed for cold weather (row home design, self insulating against the neighbor, flat tarred roofs)

Now if they could only convince people in Port Richmond to put a ticking time bomb in their 'hood we might see lower prices...

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/n...2/12469395.htm

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and a related story on heating your home from the Inky

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/12647526.htm

That is fact. I still can't quite bring myself to believe it
as electricity was always the cleaner, more expensive
way to heat and cool.


Joel

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if there isone aspect of philly I hopegets privatizedits PGW. some of the highest rates in the country. I wish they'd propoise the LNG terminal further south.

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In Reading some apartment owners and people who own rental homes have said they might kick out tenants when the winter months come, to save on heating oil...

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- On the lookout for black people and immigrants

why don't they just charge them for it?

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So, how do the costs exactly stack up between oil and gas and electric (any other options?) As I look online at houses for sale, I see a mix of options, and have wondered about the heating costs.

In light of that, we figured our heating and cooling bills would be lower when we moved to our S. Philly row house. Alas, WRONG AGAIN!!

Much to our surprise and disappointment, we found that the heating bills during our first winter here ('04-'05) were much higher than what we paid to heat our larger, free-standing colonial home in NJ. Being that our row home is completely rehabbed and has two separate heating and cooling zones, we really expected our energy costs would be at least somewhat lower.

We're just chalking it up to the extra costs involved to live in the city.

Even in the days of low oil prices, it was cheaper to heat your home with clean burning Pennsylvania anthracite than anything else. The last major institution in the City to abandon coal was the Philadelphia School District, which converted to natural gas sometime in the 1990's. I confess I'm surprised the coal industry (what's left of it) has not taken advantage of this spike in energy prices to win more customers over to coal heat. I'm sure there are many in Philadelphia who are sick of paying PGW prices. Is it because the distribution network has slowly whittled away? Is it even possible to get coal deliveries in the city? Is it because coal has a "dirty" reputation (which I think is unjustified)?