Best price for heating oil?

stevieg

As i said in the other thread.

The only place I could find that would deliver kerosene/heating oil at short notice in Scotland was a company called Northern Oils. There no. is 01542832465.

Mary_Hartnell

rhiwfield wrote: »

Air source heat pumps, I'm currently getting quotes for one.

Beware, the decision is not a simple one for one substitution.

Heat Pumps are a "trickle" technology for highly insulated buildings that hopefully have "thermal mass" to smooth out temperature changes inside and out.

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It makes for more sense to spend an extra 500 GBP on insulation upgrade than 5,000 GBP on a bigger pump.

The efficiency of a heat pump varies with the difference between input and output temperatures - ie when it gets really cold the efficiency falls off (and systems designed for Scandinavian hydro electric supply turn on their immersion heaters)
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djr65

bandana999 wrote: »

Just ordered 1500 ltrs for 38.5p + vat . (£ 606.38)

North Glos. Seemed like an OK price.:j

( oh, and paid by credit card .)

hi there could you please email me the company as i am in same area
kind regards
djr

djr65

could you please tell me the supplier as i am in same3 area please

bikerchris

Laidbury wrote: »

great thread.

i live in oxfordshire too...in a little rural village. we do not have mains drainage or gas in the village. one or two of the houses run storage heaters, but most of us are on oil....

That's a very sad situation to be in, you have probably already tried, but many oil outlets offer discounts on mass orders, where you effectively buy a whole tank (or near off) to deliver to your village/road.

Just a thought!

Gigervamp

djr65 wrote: »

hi there could you please email me the company as i am in same area
kind regards
djr

djr65 wrote: »

could you please tell me the supplier as i am in same3 area please

The post you've quoted is from 2008, the member may no longer be posting on MSE and obviously the price quoted will be waaaay out of date.

bandana999

Gigervamp wrote: »

The post you've quoted is from 2008, the member may no longer be posting on MSE and obviously the price quoted will be waaaay out of date.

I am still around, and I PM'ed djr65 on the 13th, but had no reply, so whether he's received it I don't know.
FYI I bought 2000ltrs from the same supplier (pace fuelcare) on 07/07/2010 at 39.9p/ltr. They were quoting about 20p more/ltr yesterday.

FlyingSolo_3

grid24 wrote: »

I am a domestic heating oil user in Oxfordshire and am furious at the current extortionate price being charged by suppliers (15th December 2010).

I have enlisted the help of my MP, Tony Baldry (Banbury), to investigate the matter. He has just informed me that he is aware of the problem and shares my concerns. he has already written to Director General of the Office of Fair Trading and asked him to investigate. I have also written to the Federation of Petroleum Suppliers Chief Executive, Susan Hancock, and am awaiting her response.

I think it is a very under-reported story which is having a massive effect on a significant number of people, particularly in rural areas, and needs to be highlighted and investigated by the media and so have written to the News Desk at various newspapers, ITV and the BBC.

My case in point - I purchased 800 litres of oil on November 28th and paid 48.33p (plus 5% VAT) per litre which is roughly in line with prices I have paid over the last year or so, including times when oil prices themselves have risen and supply was interrupted by various elements. The same amount of oil today is quoted at up to 89.6p/litre (plus 5% VAT) - a staggering rise of 85% in 2 weeks!

The Federation of Petroleum Suppliers claim in their press release that the increase cost of crude oil and supply difficulties due to the recent bad weather has effected the price and availability of heating oil. However, although the price of crude oil has risen over the past months, it hasn't gone up by anything like 85%. In fact, even when crude oil prices were at $147/ barrel in the summer of 2008, the most I paid for heating oil was still only 62p/litre. Brent oil is now trading at around $91/barrel so why are the prices for heating oil so cripplingly high?

I live in Oxfordshire and, although the North of the country was badly effected by snow and ice, these disruptions didn't effect us. The supply of road fuel hasn't been effected either which, I understand, uses the same supply infrastructure. Nor can the price rise be blamed on seasonal demand, which is also implied. Oil ordered around Christmas in 2008 and 2009 was no more expensive than at other times of the year at 38p/litre.

As pointed out in a rare article I found in the Telegraph, if road fuel had gone up by this amount there would be mass uproar. In fact, heating oil is now more expensive than road diesel before duty and VAT -
Road diesel - £1.22/litre less Fuel Duty @ 58p and VAT @ 18.21p = 46p per litre
Heating oil (today's best price) - £0.75/litre (before VAT) less Fuel Duty @ .09p = 66p per litre

I have found this article which is one of the very few reporting on this rip-off. Read the comments at the bottom of the article for some pretty harrowing 'real-life' experiences.
telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/consumertips/8194367/Central-heating-oil-price-shoots-up-by-70pc.html

Finally, I have found BoilerJuice is getting quite expensive now as it is, apparently, owned by GB Oils (the largest single oil-distribution company in Great Britain). The Home Fuels Direct site is consistently giving better quotes although I haven't personally ordered from them yet. You can check local oil prices for yourself here - homefuelsdirect.co.uk

Hi,

I have used Homefuelsdirect recently - they are no worse than many other oufits, but don't expect the finesse of a large corporate company that their website implies. They appear to have only one or two folk to answer the phone, and an answering machine that fills up quickly and then dumps your call. If you do get through, there only seems to be one chap who knows what is going on, so you learn nothing if he is out. We had a minor dispute over the cost for an excess delivery, and their main response was threatening to come and suck out the oil. I don't think they intended to be overly aggressive but it was not the sort of thing one gets from a grown up company, although we did eventually reach a compromise. I daresay if things are going well they could as charming as the customer quotes on the site suggest.

They don't quote a postal address on the website, but for the record they appear to operate out of the Stockton Business Centre, 70-74 Brunswick Street Stockton-on-Tees TS18 1DW.

I note that others on this forum have had problems in contacting them during the Christmas fiasco, so it is not just me, and yes they are still in business.

cyngor_cymru

i ordered 1000litres for my parents' house today @ 52ppl + vat. CF71. i rang 6 companies and prices varied from 52 to 63.

home-heating-oil

fueloildirect... Another boilerjuice style price comparison website owned DCC / GB Oils.. See the 74 of them, that we know about and there are probably more, http://heating-oil.blogs-uk.co.uk/dcc-gb-oils-grip-uk-heating-oil-market-stronger-thought/