Originally Posted by senior citizen (Post 778955)

I hear you. You are correct. Florida does have very reasonable utility bills in general.

What state would that $800 heating bill be in? Do you mean per month?
Or per winter?

I pay for ten months on a budget plan to our heating oil delivery people.......$340 per month, so that would be $3,400 a year.

If we use more, we pay the final amount in May and then "have off" for a few months till the new billing cycle...........but it's a big four zone (4 thermostats) home. I hope your folks aren't paying $800 a month, unless you mean during the dead of winter; the coldest few months. Our oil company spreads our payments out.........

But, can't complain as the house is toasty warm.

Our daughter and son and their children heat totally with wood from their ten acres of land. They have pellet stoves in main living areas and a wood furnace in the basement...............no oil heat at all; no electric heat at all. Just wood. Personally, I can't see them doing that at our age.

But, we know lots of folks, younger folks, who help their entire families "heat with wood" by buying wood lots and cutting wood all summer long.

We still have the same two cords of wood sitting out back, for several years now. Just use the fireplace occasionally in the winter and when the grandkids visit........they love to help build the fire and tend to it.

I guess I prefer to pay the oil bill........even though it keeps increasing.
Can't win.