Tips for Reducing Your Home Heating Bill

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Do the writers of articles like this assume that we have NOT caulked and insulated and so on for years & years and need the same old info over and over again? Just wondering.

Joan of MD 8:53PM January 05, 2010

Back in the 1930s a guy lived in my area--Annapolis, MD-- on "Java Farm" which I guess produced milk. He never turned on the heat. He wore a coat, but no shoes. Said it was not natural. After some very high gas bills, I decided to turn off my gas heat. Yea, I am freezing right now, even wrapped in two afghans, but I can afford to live. Yes, I have a couple of electric heaters so the pipes (which are wrapped in electrical tape for pipes) will not freeze. It will be like this for another month, maybe, then the cold will actually be bearable and in April, it will be warm again. I wish the global environment was indeed warming up!

Joan of MD 8:50PM January 05, 2010

I applied for assistance to install items that would assit with cooloing and heating bill, I am disabled and retired and very low income, I was turned down, What do you have to do to be accepted

Allan of CA 1:22PM January 05, 2010

We had the gas cut on in a rental house we own, so the pipes wouldn't freeze hopefully, yes they are insulated, but when it gets cold they can sometimes freeze anyway so we had gas cut on, the bill for the rental house is almost as much as for the house we live in. nothing on but one burner in the heater at the rental house $108. this months. That is rediculus what if I used the other heater or the hot water heater, I couldn't aford it. What do you say Scanna.

Margie of GA 1:21PM January 05, 2010

Reduce the seepage of cold air from windows and doors with a very cheap poduct - dense closed cell foam (an old camping pad). Very flexible, easy to cut, and fit nicely into those air-leaking area around my windows and doors. See my handiwork:
http://action-keep-heating-costs-down.blogspot.com/

epyon of GA 9:28PM November 24, 2009

If I lower my heating costs & save money on my propane cost,the company rewards me by charging me a $180.00 fee they call a tank inspection & upkeep fee. This fee is charge if I do not use one full tank of propane per year. The only time Poores Propane of Delaware sees the tank is when they fill it. If I save 10 to 20% on my costs, which could be a hundred dollars, I am rewarded with a penalty.

Pete @ Dover Delaware 11/09/2009 of DE 1:21AM November 09, 2009

The costs associated with this bill will make anything anyone can do pale by comparison. How can you save thousands each year to counter the higher energy and associated taxes buried in this bill? You can't.
Carbon emissions won't be reduced. Read the analytical reports on these two bills proposed by California and Massachusets Congressional flakes.

Shivering of WI 4:27PM October 28, 2009

If some of the commentors weren't so sticky on the subject of government money, they would have seen that only one suggestion referred to a government grant. The PACE bonds are actually loans that the homeowners have to pay back in full, with interest. Those actually come in first position in front of the mortgage in case of foreclosure, btw.
The other items that they suggested were ones that even you tightwads could agree with, such as getting things fixed around the house and setting the thermostat lower.

DBK of VA 2:54PM October 28, 2009

I would faint if just once I would read an article that really says something . We all know lowert the thermostat so now what .I 8 grader could have written this article.

ed of PA 2:42PM October 28, 2009