There has apparently been a price drop in domestic heating oil (!!!!!)

and for anyone who isn't aware/doesn't use oil, about 6 months ago it was @ £300

Oh my goodness, I used to get a full tank of 1200 for much less than that. I really don't know how we are going to manage this. I'm already taking on more hours at work than I can manage due to increasing bills accross the board.

Now the latest rhetoric I am seeing is that these price increases are all down to the awfulness in Ukraine so we must make sacrifices when that is blatantly not true at all and this had already started.

This will push far too many people into poverty and that is unacceptable

Just checked locally. Price per litre £1.26. I paid 59p 4 weeks ago and 19p at the start of the pandemic is 2019!

Petrol prices too, people are actually reaching the price cap of £99 before their tank is full

We got some two weeks ago and paid £364 for 500l and that’s the highest since we moved here 8 years ago .
Just put wood burner on to try to conserve the oil ?

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Petrol prices too, people are actually reaching the price cap of £99 before their tank is full

There was no petrol or diesel at our fuel station yesterday.

We have essential journeys to make; I feel sorry for those who need to travel for work.

500l of oil here today would be £640. I had 500l delivered last week for £430. In Spring 2020 I bought the same for £134.

There’s no help available for people who use oil, either.

I hear that Boris goes to Saudi Arabia today, to try to secure supply of oil.

I was very sad to have to downsize to this bungalow, but am now appreciating it far more.

My old house had an old oil boiler and I had to buy 600L of oil per month from October to March. I hope my kids now appreciate selling was a very wise move!

That’s a huge amount of oil a month, Shandy! You’ll be glad not to be paying that now.

Oil from Saudi Arabia, a country where they executed eighty one men, just yesterday.

We paid £364 for 600l six weeks ago. With what was already in tank we hope to have enough until May and I'm hoping prices have dropped by then.

Yes, we’re hoping to eke out our oil, too. ?

We have just paid £856 for 1000L. We ordered it about 10 days ago.
I spoke to a friend yesterday, he normally buys his red diesel via a farmers co-op. They now require payment before the fill up and won’t quote a price, it’s what it is on the day of delivery.

SueDonim I should have said I had the Aga too, I allowed at least 200L for that per month. I do miss it, I hadn't realised how I relied on it for drying coats etc!

We’re in the same boat here, & I’ll be eking out my remaining half tank as long as I can. I’m in a syndicate & for the first time ever we have no prices quoted before delivery, delivery date-ranges are uncertain, & some suppliers won’t promise delivery at all. I have no idea how much I’ll have to pay for the 500litres minimum delivery or when it will be delivered.

The thing about heating oil is that it has to be paid for in a lump sum, not by monthly direct debit, and to some extent it’s always a gamble, but this is beyond any oil-price shock I’ve ever experienced.

It looks as though electricity may turn out to be the least expensive energy in the foreseeable future.

Delila
Our oil company does a monthly payment scheme. We don’t use it but it is available.

Yes, thanks Pamela, this is available here too, but not within the syndicate, which is worth belonging to as in normal times it is able to negotiate very favourable prices.

So it seems it is going up rapidly then I have a payment plan with boilerjuice but I hadn't considered it would go up quite so much. Even in the 2010/11 winter it was about £1000 for 1000l irrc

Boilerjuice we’re quoting a price of £1.34 per litre on the 8th of March.

I don’t think any company is prepared to quote a price now, it’s such a volatile situation.

Boiler Juice was £1.20/L for my area today.

I'm always calling it boiler juice now

We call the fuel we put in our car either buggy juice or jalopy juice, which is what my dad used to call it.

Last weekend I bought 500L for £535. On the Monday I bought the same for work at £670, my friend rang that evening to say she had just paid over £1000!
It is coming down, but that doesn’t mean it won’t go up again, I buy 500L per month through the winter, so it’s a worry, but I realise for some families it will be impossible to keep buying it.