Re: How many use propane over oil?


"Robert" <rmfree@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I live in NW Washington State. I decided to heat with oil
after I did
> the math using the BTU value of propane and #2 furnace
oil. Oil was
> around 140,000 BTU's per gallon and propane around 91,000.
At the time
> I had a 100 gallon propane tank and a 500 (+) oil tank and
the two
> fuels were about the same delivered price per gallon given
my tank
> sizes. Oil was clearly cheaper for me to heat with and as
I bought a
> Toyotomi on-demand water heater to use as a boiler I had a
very
> efficient HW source as well I did this three years ago
and haven't
> regreted it yet.


do you have some numbers backwards? looks like propane is
cheaper to heat with.


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