MSE News: Hope for LPG switchers

I wasn't aware that you needed permission to change heating oil suppliers. Certain that I don't.

'Tieing in' is of course common in the lpg market where (say) Calor own the tank and rent it to you but is this sort of arrangement common in the oil market ?

This is very badly written article. Come on MSE get your facts right. This is about LPG not oil. The two are completely different. AFAIK all oil users own their own tank. LPG tanks are sometimes owned by the LPG supplier I believe so you are locked in to their tariff.

Oil users usually shop around although you can be on a oil top up scheme where one oil company supplies you.

For those that like figures I've worked out these:

LPG 19kg tank at £55 kWh = 22.4p (91%), 30.1p (82%)
LPG bulk 44p/l kWh = 6.5p (91%), 7.9p (82%)
Oil 60p/l kWh = 6.2p (93%), 6.9p(84%)

The % figures are for good condensing and good non-condensing boiler. Electric is of course ~10p kWh or ~11p/5.5p for E7. My LPG figures are from posts on MSE so I assume they are reasonably accurate. I'm on oil so I don't buy LPG. And at those prices there is no reason to change. E7 is cheaper per kWh although not as controllable.

Shouldn't that be in the "LPG, Heating Oil, Solid & Other Fuels" section anyway rather than "Gas & Electricity"? :rotfl:

Around four million households, mainly in the countryside, are not connected to the mains gas grid, so rely on heating oil to keep warm. LPG is just one type

Don't forget wood. We use it a lot in the countryside - its just another sort of oil you know But please, don't run away with the idea that it grows on trees.