Tips for Reducing Your Home Heating Bill

Home Heating Savings

Back in the 1930s a guy lived in my area--Annapolis, MD-- on "Java Farm" which I guess produced milk. He never turned on the heat. He wore a coat, but no shoes. Said it was not natural. After some very high gas bills, I decided to turn off my gas heat. Yea, I am freezing right now, even wrapped in two afghans, but I can afford to live. Yes, I have a couple of electric heaters so the pipes (which are wrapped in electrical tape for pipes) will not freeze. It will be like this for another month, maybe, then the cold will actually be bearable and in April, it will be warm again. I wish the global environment was indeed warming up!

Joan of MD @ Jan 05, 2010 20:50:54 PM

COP

I applied for assistance to install items that would assit with cooloing and heating bill, I am disabled and retired and very low income, I was turned down, What do you have to do to be accepted

Allan of CA @ Jan 05, 2010 13:22:25 PM

Mrs.

We had the gas cut on in a rental house we own, so the pipes wouldn't freeze hopefully, yes they are insulated, but when it gets cold they can sometimes freeze anyway so we had gas cut on, the bill for the rental house is almost as much as for the house we live in. nothing on but one burner in the heater at the rental house $108. this months. That is rediculus what if I used the other heater or the hot water heater, I couldn't aford it. What do you say Scanna.

Margie of GA @ Jan 05, 2010 13:21:05 PM

Cheap ways to save on home heating

Reduce the seepage of cold air from windows and doors with a very cheap poduct - dense closed cell foam (an old camping pad). Very flexible, easy to cut, and fit nicely into those air-leaking area around my windows and doors. See my handiwork:

http://action-keep-heating-costs-down.blogspot.com/

epyon of GA @ Nov 24, 2009 21:28:56 PM

Propane company foils energy savings

If I lower my heating costs & save money on my propane cost,the company rewards me by charging me a $180.00 fee they call a tank inspection & upkeep fee. This fee is charge if I do not use one full tank of propane per year. The only time Poores Propane of Delaware sees the tank is when they fill it. If I save 10 to 20% on my costs, which could be a hundred dollars, I am rewarded with a penalty.

Pete @ Dover Delaware 11/09/2009 of DE @ Nov 09, 2009 01:21:03 AM

Defeat Cap and Trade Bill

The costs associated with this bill will make anything anyone can do pale by comparison. How can you save thousands each year to counter the higher energy and associated taxes buried in this bill? You can't.

Carbon emissions won't be reduced. Read the analytical reports on these two bills proposed by California and Massachusets Congressional flakes.

Shivering of WI @ Oct 28, 2009 16:27:53 PM

Not only about government bailout

If some of the commentors weren't so sticky on the subject of government money, they would have seen that only one suggestion referred to a government grant. The PACE bonds are actually loans that the homeowners have to pay back in full, with interest. Those actually come in first position in front of the mortgage in case of foreclosure, btw.

The other items that they suggested were ones that even you tightwads could agree with, such as getting things fixed around the house and setting the thermostat lower.

DBK of VA @ Oct 28, 2009 14:54:50 PM

more BS

I would faint if just once I would read an article that really says something . We all know lowert the thermostat so now what .I 8 grader could have written this article.

ed of PA @ Oct 28, 2009 14:42:32 PM