Oil Man Called Today

av8r · Post by **av8r** » Tue. Jan. 13, 2009 9:20 pm

Said he won't be stopping by for automatic delivery anymore. Apparently, the 70 gallons he delivered for the last 6 months isn't enough to justify the trip.

I do believe that this is a good thing!

coalkirk · Post by **coalkirk** » Tue. Jan. 13, 2009 9:25 pm

Geez, what a snotty oil man. My guy brought 15 gallons over 12 months and didn't cut me off.

Or he just didn't bother telling me. The 23 tons of coal he had to walk past to get to the oil tank fill probably made an impression anyway.

U235a4 · Post by **U235a4** » Tue. Jan. 13, 2009 11:08 pm

I love reading threads like this

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lincolnmania · Post by **lincolnmania** » Wed. Jan. 14, 2009 12:26 am

my shop used to be a fuel oil dealer.......we ripped out the oil furnace and added coal stoves

Matthaus · Post by **Matthaus** » Wed. Jan. 14, 2009 12:38 am

gas company sent an estimated bill for last month because they couldn't believe I had used zero cu. ft!

Post by **Richard S.** » Wed. Jan. 14, 2009 3:25 am

I don't blame the guy for cutting you off, depending on his route delivering just a few gallons might even be costing him money. I had a "soft" two ton minimum for coal, if they wanted one ton I'd tell them call me at least 2 or 3 weeks in advance and be ready to take delivery at any time even if I couldn't get a hold of them to schedule it. The only time that was worth it was if you had the space and were going to the same area.

acesover · Post by **acesover** » Wed. Jan. 14, 2009 5:22 am

Funny, I just got oil yesterday too, 28gal. @ $2.59 a gallon.
Ray

CoalHeat · Post by **CoalHeat** » Wed. Jan. 14, 2009 6:27 am

I saw the delivery guy in town yesterday, we had a nice conversation. I think he should go into the coal business...

Freddy · Post by **Freddy** » Wed. Jan. 14, 2009 6:36 am

I shut my oil deliveries off last summer, but, I have to admit, a few times I have used the oil in the garage to boost the temp. It has a .5 gallon per hour nozzle. I'll bet I've used 1 1/2, maybe 2 gallons by now. It has a 138 gallon tank so if this rate keeps up I'll have to fill it once each 46 years.

Mossy Beard · Post by **Mossy Beard** » Wed. Jan. 14, 2009 6:45 am

That's good but.....

Around our parts, if you're on auto delivery and they come and get less than a pre-set quanity, you are presented with a 25 - 50.00 charge on top of the product cost.
My min. delivery is/was 150 gal. I did call and get off the auto. del.
I can't believe some Co. would come mulitple times and only get a few gals... I don't doubt what you say, it just wouldn't happen in my area.

Mossy Beard

billlindley · Post by **billlindley** » Wed. Jan. 14, 2009 7:17 am

acesover wrote:Funny, I just got oil yesterday too, 28gal. @ $2.59 a gallon.
Ray

2.59 still seems high. Heating Oil futures ( 1 month out) are trading @ 1.50 a gallon to which you add about .60 of overhead. Oil should only be in the $2.10 to $2.25 range. in fact looking at the charts the future haven't been above about 1.65 since the end of October. Sounds like the oil men are still trying to sell some ofthat expensive stuff they stockpiled earlier in the year.....

Blackdiamonddoug · Post by **Blackdiamonddoug** » Wed. Jan. 14, 2009 7:39 am

dec delivery was 19 gas of oil
My wife starting to warm up to the idear of Coal

BDD

av8r · Post by **av8r** » Wed. Jan. 14, 2009 8:05 am

I didn't say they came multiple times. They came once back in the early fall and delivered 135 gallons, then again the other day. The do have a minimum 150 gallon delivery and I knew this was coming...just thought it was neat to get the call and know I'm not shackled to the oil man anymore!

Mossy Beard wrote:That's good but.....

Around our parts, if you're on auto delivery and they come and get less than a pre-set quanity, you are presented with a 25 - 50.00 charge on top of the product cost.
My min. delivery is/was 150 gal. I did call and get off the auto. del.
I can't believe some Co. would come mulitple times and only get a few gals... I don't doubt what you say, it just wouldn't happen in my area.

Mossy Beard

beatle78 · Post by **beatle78** » Wed. Jan. 14, 2009 8:30 am

I took myself off auto delivery in the middle of December.

While I was scheduling the chimney mason to come over I noticed the tank was really low. I got nervous and called to have 100 gallons delivered for $1.99/gallon. (100 gal minimum). I had the coal boiler running 2 days later.

arcticcatmatt · Post by **arcticcatmatt** » Wed. Jan. 14, 2009 8:42 am

Oil is my DHW and baseboard backup with multizones.

It burns 80ish gallons year. I just had 150 gallons put in it 2 days ago at $2.49 a gallon. My parents 3 hrs away got some (they use it in emergency) for 1.99/gallon. WTF. 10 places out here.. they ranged 2.50/gallon - 2.99/gallon.

Oh well. 150 gallons = enough oil for 1.5-2 yrs. I have coworkers filling their 250 gallon tanks almost every month this winter! Frig that!