Heating oil

fredjones62's picture
Tue, 12/14/2010 - 00:24
by fredjones62

Heating oil has gone up again. Just bought 1000 litres of oil to fill the tank and from my last order it has gone up by a further £70.00

These people know how to charge. has anyone else noticed such as heating oil going through the roof. I also noticed that unleaded petrol had gone up. My car was on nearly empty so I put £20 in the tank and it did not even take it to half way.

Looks like will have to think of a different form of heating.

Fred

mountainbiker_uk's picture
Tue, 12/28/2010 - 16:26
by mountainbiker_uk

I have just been told that heating oil is at 75p per litre.

That sounds rather costly to me and gosh all those people who are on heating oil and trying to keep warm in this extra cold weather we have had.

It makes you laugh. We have plenty of the stuff and the people that sell it buy it in at what ever it costs and just decide to put the price up because it is a bit colder. Well I think that is wrong. At the end of the day they are lining there pockets even more. I have heard of liquid gold but surely that is taking the ***.

Alexender

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