Fuel & Running Cost

Gas, propane and electric compared per delivered BTU rather than per unit.

5 articles

• Comparing Heating Fuels — Put Them All in Dollars Per Million BTU

  A therm, a gallon and a kilowatt-hour are not comparable until efficiency is applied to each of them.

• Heating Degree Days — How to Tell a Cold Winter From a Broken Furnace

  The bill went up. Whether that means the winter was colder or the furnace got worse is a division problem.

• Reading a Gas Bill — Therms, CCF and What Is Actually Variable

  The bill went up by forty percent and the heating usage went up by more than that, because part of the bill never moves.

• Propane Heating — Tank Size, Delivery and Why the Price Varies So Much

  Two houses on the same road can pay very different prices per gallon, and the reason is usually written on the side of the tank.

• Gas Bill Went Up After a New Furnace — Five Reasons That Are Not the Furnace

  Compare therms against degree days, not dollars against last year. Half of these complaints disappear the moment the weather is normalised out.