Cost of home heating oil

just had a 1000ltr fill today, rang 3 local companies and surprise ,surprise they all qouted €700. nice to see healthy competition:rolleyes:
 
Oil is going up a lot lately due to the price of a barrell of oil hitting the 100 dollar mark.It depends when the oil was bought.Two different weeks can mean two different prices.Its easier to compare prices when you quote price per litre.Same as filling your car.Last week I paid 71 cent a litre for kerosene.Just have to accept it.
 
1000ltrs Kerosene bought on the 1/11/2006 = €560
1000ltrs Kerosene bought on the 26/11/2007= €700


A 25% increase in 12 months.....scary!
 
I shopped around the Limerick area...

12/12/2007
Quoted for 500lt Kerosene

1. Schoolbrooks
http://www.schoolbooks.ie/Home-Heating-Oil-Price-Calculator.php
338.00€

2. Emo Oil
[broken link removed]
336.13€

3. Suttons Oil
(061)227333
350€

4. Hayes Nick Oil Products Ltd
Kilmallock Co. Limerick, (063)98281
345€

5. Top Oil
Limerick Co. Limerick (061)353248
350€

6. [broken link removed]
Unit 2 John st Limerick Co. Limerick (061)414126
350€

7. [broken link removed]
Lurriga Patrickswell Co. Limerick (061)355067
350€

8. [broken link removed]
Hospital Limerick Co. Limerick (061)383463
350€

9. [broken link removed]
Clarina Village Co Limerick Co. Limerick (061)353800
350€ … negotiated to 335€
 
seantheman said:
just had a 1000ltr fill today, rang 3 local companies and surprise ,surprise they all qouted €700. nice to see healthy competition:rolleyes:
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suggest to contact the Competition Authority.

There was a case involving at least three heating oil companies in Galway a while back
- about half way down.

See also http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2095-958792,00.html - there was also an investigation into the heating oil market in County Cork.
 
Quotes for 1000 lts of kerosene in wicklow today are in the range from

€650 to €670 ,so seems to be a little bit of competition.
 
((The following question has been answered for me since I posted this but feel free to make any comments))

Forgive me for ressurecting an old post but I've just moved to Waterford and yes, the tank is empty! :)

This is my first time in a house with oil so I'm not completely sure about general prices today..

Anyone have any recent quotes from the Waterford area in 2008..?

And again forgive me if this is a silly question but we have a lot of rooms in this house but will only require heating in about 3 of them.. Will the oil last longer if we close off the rads in some of the rooms..?

Thanks in advance..

MrD
 
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Wicklow area prices, all per 1000 litres, on average 3 fills per year (2200 sq ft house):
month date cost
4 Apr-05 482
4 Aug-05 377
4 Dec-05 560
4 Apr-06 550
3 Jul-06 625
6 Jan-07 559
4 May-07 535
6 Nov-07 660
2 Jan-08 655

There is ALWAYS at least 20 euro to play around with between the cheapest operators, and there are definitely a lot of sellers who will be up to 50 euro higher. In other words same as petrol where you can pay 118c a litre in some garages and 124 in others.
 
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I had a look at it and it has very few oil companies listed for counties down south. It has the potential to be an excellent site once its fully functioning.
 
mtoner said:
It seems to be very hard to find websites in the republic that list their prices online. Anyone know any?
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There are about 5 or 6 oil companies in my area and each time I require an oil fill, I ring them all for a quote. A few of them immediatly rattle off the price of a 1000 litres of kerosene but sometimes the receptionist takes my number and informs me that the boss will phone me back. When they ring back and they always do, I first of all have to under go some sort of interrogation and asked to identify myself, where am I located, who am I married to and did I buy off them before. This practice grates me to say the least and I have often wondered if they have one price for customers they know and another for customers they don't know.
 
Just got quoted €834 for 1,000lt of Gas Oil from Emo Oil in North Dublin. It has gone up over €295 since April 2007!!! Almost €90 up on April 2008!!!!

Funny thing is, the price of Oil now ($118 per barrell), is BELOW the price of April 2008.

What the hell is going on?
 
There was a piece on the UK news this morning that the oil price will always take at least 3 times as long to come down as it did to go up. Basically it takes a price war between a couple of companies before they all lower their prices in line with existing costs.

I think I have now made up my mind that I will not be using oil on my build!
 
cozzy121 said:
Just got quoted €834 for 1,000lt of Gas Oil from Emo Oil in North Dublin. It has gone up over €295 since April 2007!!! Almost €90 up on April 2008!!!!

Funny thing is, the price of Oil now ($118 per barrell), is BELOW the price of April 2008.

What the hell is going on?
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It's actually $108 today ... but it takes a few months to work through the system
 
Any company that gives you a high quote and then agrees to match a lower quote should be told to keep the stuff. Remember they tried to rip ypu off in the first place as opposed to the honest company that gave you a realistic quote first time .
Unless they agreed to substantially undercut the first quote I know where I would place my order.
 
Cost of 1000 lts in wicklow area delivered yesterday was €440,and have to agree with you W200 these company's should be looking after their regular customers.
 
I bought 350l in N.Donegal couple of day ago - €180

350l bought in Sept was €250.

Nice decrease but still hard to pay for it at that price when oil over the border 1 mile away is £175 for 500l.
 
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