How do you heat your home Me? Gas How 'bout ya'll..... was wondering because I just saw out my office window my neighbor just had his oil tank filled Oh yeah and I'm kicking myself for the past 10 years for not having a real (wood burning) fireplace Have a gas one wish it wasn't there

I have electric appliances and heat. I also have a wood stove but don't use it as much.

I do not trust gas. I'm super sensitive to the smell they add to it and can smell a leak easily. It amazes me how many people have leaks and don't know or don't care.

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I heat with a natural gas (methane) furnace, but have been turning the thermostat down to 60F and closing all the vents except for the room I'm in and supplementing that with a 1500w, oscillating, ceramic heater. Living alone makes this more reasonable than for a family. Actually I've found it to give me 'about' a 25%+ savings. My combined $$$ spent have certainly been considerably lower the past couple years but it is hard to get very accurate without inside/outside temperature differentials for the season.

My daughter also heats with natural gas but they supplement with a free standing soap stone wood burner piped into the fireplace that does an impressive job. Much more practical for a family with two small kids. Sonoutlaw has a supply of wood that only costs MUCH labor that he willing invests throughout the year.

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Lil I have a plumbing background so I know how to prevent leaks and fix them when they occur I installed the new stove in my old house about 12 years ago with my brother inlaw 10 thumbs never leaked and the house is still there

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We use one of the new oil burners. Much more energy efficient than the one it replaced 3 years ago.

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We heat with gas but in Okla we only have about 2 to 3 weeks of below freezing weather.Its the summer that kills us with elec. AC 95 to 103 heat

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all electric

Used to have an oil furnace but switched it out for gas this year. We also have a wood-burning stove.

to heat the house we have a wood burning stove and 20 acres of our 40 acre plot of land is wooded so dad and i or sometimes dad alone... will cut trees haul it to the barn where he splits it and I stack it to cure for next season. for my room I have a 1500 w oil radiator thingie makes it nice and toasty

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We're electric. Upstairs is on a heat/ac pump. Downstairs has base board heaters. I don't use the heater and have a window ac for my room in the summer. In winter I don't jack the bill up, but summer just about kills me. Just glad I don't have the pay that bill.

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"BOY: On a hot summer night, would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses? GIRL: Will he offer me his mouth? BOY: Yes. GIRL: Will he offer me his teeth? BOY: Yes. GIRL: Will he offer me his jaws? BOY: Yes. GIRL: Will he offer me his hunger? BOY: Yes. GIRL: Again, will he offer me his hunger? BOY: Yes! GIRL: Yes. BOY: On a hot summer night, would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses? GIRL: Yes. BOY: I bet you say that to all the boys!" -Meatloaf

what my dearest fails to mention is that he has a heated waterbed to get all snuggly!

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-Seems we got here just in the nick of time. Whats that make us?
--Big damn heros Sir.
-Ain't we just.

And one hell of a bed warmer that visits.

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We're all gas/electric here, an electric heat pump actually pumps very *cool* air, so it's really not efficient, even here in the heart of TVA-cheap electricity. Used to have a wood fireplace which was converted to gas logs, which was a life-saver for my mother during the 2 week power outage 14 years ago (I was then living a few miles away, & was greatly inconvenienced when I lost my cable for about an hour). Of course I gave up the gas logs when I had them take down the Leaning Chimney Of Crieve Hall nearly two years ago.

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This house is heated by a GHP (geothermal heat pump). We have a wood burner but rarely use it nowadays.

I just open my doors.

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