Are you ready to give 110% to keep your family warm this winter?

underpants

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Thu Oct-11-07 04:52 PM
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Are you ready to give 110% to keep your family warm this winter?

or 122% if you use oil.

NEW YORK (AP) � Almost all Americans will pay a lot more to heat their homes this winter, even though temperatures are expected to be warmer than average. That's the sobering message from an Energy Department report Tuesday that estimates heating oil costs are likely to jump 22 percent and natural gas bills, on average, will rise 10 percent between October and March.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gtrLWC99_h5D_t0S0mmhvgg_drfQD8S64D6G0

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PDJane

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Thu Oct-11-07 04:55 PM
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1. I'm glad this does NOT apply to me,

Although I'm sorry for the folks to whom it does apply.

I haven't turned on heat here for more than 48 hours in five years. Cooling is, of course, another problem, although I don't use much more than a fan if I can avoid it.

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JackintheGreen

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Thu Oct-11-07 05:12 PM
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2. I would do *anything* for my family...

let's invade Iran!

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underpants

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Thu Oct-11-07 05:47 PM
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6. Go get'um there Jack

I'll be behind you all the way

WAAAY behind you :bounce:

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kdmorris

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Thu Oct-11-07 05:15 PM
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3. The one good thing about living in South Florida

is that we turn the heat on maybe one day a year.

I feel for the families that will be forced to use heat because of where they live. Been there, done that. Keeping the heat at 58 degrees and wearing your winter coat inside just sucks.

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hashibabba

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Thu Oct-11-07 05:40 PM
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5. I lived in So. Florida for 12 years and I used the heat! Guess I'm just

a weenie.

Now I'm further north and I do set the thermostat at 60 at night and actually prefer to sleep cool. During the day, I turn it up, but not enough to keep me warm. I'm always in front of my sunny window typing away with frozen fingers.

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kdmorris

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Thu Oct-11-07 06:07 PM
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7. heheh nope, not a weenie

We are just cheapskates. Keep the windows open for as long as we can and then just close them all when it gets cold.

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Gidney N Cloyd

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Thu Oct-11-07 05:17 PM
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4. And yet, there's plenty of natural gas supply.

Basically, they plan on gouging us and they're brazen about it.

"We could have all-time record storage by the beginning of February," said Tim Evans, an analyst at Citigroup Inc. in New York.

But all of that could turn around if oil prices stay high and electricity plant operators switch to natural gas for units that can burn either fuel, said Ron Denhardt, CEO of Strategic Energy & Economic Research Inc., in Winchester, Mass.

On the other hand, supplies coming on line this year, including Anadarko Petroleum Corp.'s Independence Hub platform in the Gulf of Mexico and a portion of the huge Rockies Express natural gas pipeline project, are expected to boost natural gas supplies by 2 billion to 2.5 billion cubic feet.

"That's a lot of supply coming on," Denhardt said.

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sicksicksick_N_tired

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Thu Oct-11-07 06:19 PM
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8. What do we know about Samuel Boden, the Energy Dept Secretary?

Does he "ho" to supply-sider economiteers (e.g. the ones that advocate big corps should be allowed to suck you and I high dry of every damn penny for basic needs)?

Ahhhh, the forecast is warm and dry. Our utilities are going up UP UP!!!

Blood-suckers!!! :grr:

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underpants

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Thu Oct-11-07 06:24 PM
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9. Well, to be frank, they have to go up

There is simply no other way to make more money

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cobalt1999

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Thu Oct-11-07 06:29 PM
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10. One of the benefits of living in Florida

Heating costs are low. :)

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Mike03

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Thu Oct-11-07 06:40 PM
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11. Probably, but it will be financially painful

My rationale for using heat without guilt is:

1. Even though I live near Phoenix, I do not use the air conditioning no matter what. I love the hot weather, so I save on air conditioning during the hot months.

2. For some reason, cold weather gives me migraines, which I can only get rid of by paying more than $27 a 100 mg tablet for a medicine called Imitrex. So five migraines in a week cost me $135, and 20 migraines in a month cost me $540, so I probably spend less if heating my home prevents so many migraines.

Besides, I have tried to cut the hell out of any and all discretionary spending.

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