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Just curious, how many gallons was the $3.07 price based on?
Because I know the COD is always on a sliding scale based on how many gallons delivered.
Took about 125 gallons. My first delivery for the season. However, the price never changes regardless of how many gallons. Then again, I’m on auto delivery. So, they’ll come every 6 weeks +/- going forward.
Took about 125 gallons. My first delivery for the season. However, the price never changes regardless of how many gallons. Then again, I’m on auto delivery. So, they’ll come every 6 weeks +/- going forward.
When we lived on the south shore we used a COD company called Econofuel (not on auto delivery, but on call via phone) and the price per gallon depended on whether the delivery was either more or less than 200 gallons. That was the dividing line for price. Payment was by check. When my son and DIL bought a house only a few blocks away, what the Econofuel guy would do was to combine the two under-200-gal deliveries in order to give us both the lower 200-gallon pricing because we were so close together.
We now use an auto delivery COD company that charges their 200 gallon rate regardless of the number of gallons delivered. Haven't gotten the first delivery of the season yet but expect to at the beginning of next month. It's a 275 gal indoor tank here but it still has almost 2/3 of a tank left in it from a summertime delivery. Based on the past few years' winter deliveries our average fill-up has taken about 150 gallons every 30 days. I don't like to let more than 30 days go between deliveries. This company keeps a credit card on file, does not take checks (which I can understand; nobody wants to bother dealing with bounced checks.)
FYI, I called Petro a few days ago out of curiosity re: their current rates and was quoted $2.649 for a variable-rate contract, or $2.92 for a ceiling contract. Neither depend on how many gallons, of course.
CODfuel.com is showing $2.359 to $2.429 "cash" per gallon, and $2.409 to $2.479 for credit card, for my zip code as of today.
$225 to $250 seems to be the going rate for a tuneup-cleaning these days. Of course it's the same in reality for the contract companies (Petro etc), they just build the extra $100+ into their higher per-gallon pricing. And then they up the cost of the 'service contract' every year the longer you stick with them. Found that out years ago. They give you a "free" contract as a new customer, then charge you $100 the next year and then up the fee by $25 or so if you are foolish enough to stay with them...
Last edited by BBCjunkie; 11-16-2019 at 08:28 AM..
NYSERDA average is always higher than even most contract oil companies usually charge.
Let's put it this way: The big guys (Petro, Slomins, Meenan, etc etc) usually point to NYSERDA pricing as a way to make theirprice "look" like a bargain, LOL. And we all know that their prices are always higher than COD.
I've never paid attention to the NYSERDA prices because every time I've checked them, they were noticeably higher than any price I ever paid from either a 'big' contract-company or via COD. Don't know why but it's always been true.
And then they up the cost of the 'service contract' every year the longer you stick with them. Found that out years ago. They give you a "free" contract as a new customer, then charge you $100 the next year and then up the fee by $25 or so if you are foolish enough to stay with them...
Don't these companies still encourage free service contracts so they can adjust your burner to use more fuel? I converted to natural gas asap, which saved me about $1K a year. Converting paid for it itself in about 5 years.
Don't these companies still encourage free service contracts so they can adjust your burner to use more fuel?
This is the first time I've heard that. I suppose it's possible, but to be honest.... I think it way more likely that a service tech would change a nozzle to the wrong (less efficient) size through incompetence or ignorance than as a result of some company policy.
But even if a tech did deliberately change the nozzle and/or firing rate on a customer's burner to something other than what's recommended for that particular setup, efficiency (fuel usage) depends on more factors than simply what nozzle size/firing rate a service tech chooses. You can't point to just one factor and say "This is what's causing my system to use more oil this year than last year." Weather conditions (degree days from one year to the next), short-cycling (or not), whether the system is oversized for the house it's heating, changes in the customer's thermostat settings, a dirty flue or heat exchanger, etc etc.
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