Oil heating

My daughter has had to just buy half a tank instead of a full one.
£700

It is shocking.

I used to have oil CH in the previous house. (170s) . What a pain 😫 - checking the oil level, waiting for oil deliveries. I don’t think it was much more expensive than gas - they compared well, but what a nuisance!

Our old oil boiler was much more expensive- but if you live more remotely it was that or electric or bottled gas.

We had oil heating when we lived in a north Bedfordshire village, we left for Shropshire in 1985, it was expensive then I dread to think how much it would be now.

500 litres in January and I paid £315. Today’s quote is £771!

Bloody Trump!

Exactly Primrose similar here.

We had an oil CH system during the last crisis in 2022 so I understand how these poor people feel, faced with huge jumps in fuel costs. I understand that the Chancellor is looking at how some sort of price cap can be introduced to cover the cost of oil as well as gas. I hope they find a way.

Sympathy for anyone with an empty tank now, but at least warmer months to come , faced with that rise I would turn the immersion heater on and find an extra jumper

Our daughter fortunately has a fairly full tank but has turned her Aga off!

I was once staying with her when her tank was filled, it was winter and she had a baby and toddler.
We went out shopping and returned to a cold house, her oil tank had been drained, apparently the tankers are followed the house watched then oil stolen.

Thank you Trump and Netanyahu.

Two DDs have almost empty tanks, one had a delivery ordered but the suppliers cancelled. Other DD is eking out her oil very slowly and is now set on a heat pump system. Cannot be doing with this oil uncertainty

Enough gas in uk for 2 days. Rolling power cuts are definitely on the horizon

Oil is surprisingly still cheaper than when Russia invaded Ukraine.

karmalady

Two DDs have almost empty tanks, one had a delivery ordered but the suppliers cancelled. Other DD is eking out her oil very slowly and is now set on a heat pump system. Cannot be doing with this oil uncertainty

Enough gas in uk for 2 days. Rolling power cuts are definitely on the horizon

This is in line with the normal amount of stored gas in UK at this time of year; it's not new.

This makes the argument for clean renewables even stronger.

Independence is the key.

Yougov U.K.

59% oppose the war.
25% support it.

I am confident, that if this war continues, opposition will be even stronger.

It was quite evident that something was going to happen in the Middle East, the US didn’t send the Gerald R Ford over for nothing. Anyone whose oil tank was running low would have been prudent to order well before it all kicked off.

I routinely order each October and February anyway, and start looking at price trends at the beginning of the month, getting a few online quotes and/or checking the graph on eg Cheapest Oil. Early in the week is often cheaper than a Friday.

I ordered mine on 17 February, just before the Gerald R Ford reached the Mediterranean. I’m not tied in to a particular supplier but my usual preferred one matched my lowest online quote, £293 for 500 litres. Perhaps it will still be very high when I next order, and that can’t be helped, but it just seems mad for people not to have seen the hike coming and ordered before they were desperately low.

Ditto petrol or diesel, I filled my car cheaply a week ago yesterday, I always fill it when there’s about 100 miles left in the tank (about 1/4 full). Why were people waiting until until this last weekend, if their car was low already? I get that very high mileage means filling a lot more often than my monthly fill-up, but people seem so incapable of forward planning.

I hope this post has just been created to provoke responses.
It was very harsh. and you seem so smug.
Not all people are in a position to be as diligent as yourself.
People have busy working lives and families and no they cannot always see what is happening and furthermore most families cannot afford to do it.

twiglet77 I don't know if you have read the whole thread (or listened to the news at all today) but I have done both and now know that (like my daughter's pre-order) many have been cancelled and "re-priced".

If you are part of a village "buying-group" you generally get reasonable rates... Also if you buy a lot at once it is cheaper.
This is how we used to do it.

Just saying.
...not everyone is able to "overstock: you know - you are very lucky.

twiglet77. Did anybody say they had allowed themselves to run out or get really low? I order 500 litres at a time and order when the tank is half full. So I still have 500 litres.

Some people I know actually have to go and buy oil in cans as they simply cannot afford a large delivery.