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View Poll Results: How do you heat your home? (Fuel type)

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  • Wood/pellet stove

    15 7.69%
  • CNG/LPG heat

    65 33.33%
  • Oil heat

    23 11.79%
  • Electric heat

    68 34.87%
  • Solar heat

    0 0%
  • Any combination of the above

    10 5.13%
  • Nuclear??

    6 3.08%
  • My climate doesn't necessitate heating my home

    5 2.56%
  • Other

    3 1.54%
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    Default Cold weather is upon us...

    So, I decided to make a non vehicle related poll. Hope you'll all forgive me.

    With oil prices on the rise, and cold season upon us, I just had to call around for home heating oil prices, which are pushing $3.00/gal as well. Kinda sickening to me, since it's not even remotely as refined as gasoline.

    So how many use oil heat? How many wish you didn't, I know I wish we didn't.
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    electric heat....but down here in new orleans, if it's cold enough to need the heater, it's ABNORMAL weather
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    Electric heat it's the cheapest cleanest heating you can find at the moment
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    Natural Gas baby! It's cheap at the moment and they just found the world's largest supply of natural gas under Forth Worth/Arlington/Mansfield Texas, so buy CNG so I get more money when they start drilling near me next year.

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    every year someone burns their house down because they try to heat their house by turning on the oven and leaving the door open. :-(

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    Swap that oil heater for a heat pump and tell the oil tanker dude where he can put that $3 oil.
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    We have a wood at my house. The wood is free so I think its as cheap as you get. I love the smell of burning wood anyway
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    Crawdaddy electric heat....but down here in new orleans, if it's cold enough to need the heater, it's ABNORMAL weather
    I got to go with crawdaddy, I was outside painting today and I was sweatin up a storm. Gotta love the south

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    I replaced my old oil furnace for a Natural Gas about 2 years ago, I don't really see the savings myself...., but its new. The garage CNG heater got hookup this week...and its rockin' in there now.



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    LOL...Ok, I have to ask. Who voted nuclear?
    Patrick
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