My Heating Bill For February 2009
As you can see from my natural gas bill statement for February 2009, the coldest month in Anchorage, I paid just $10 to heat my home and business (which is just as big as my home and attached to it) with the help of my waste oil boiler.
I love the feeling of self sufficiency! In our society we are so dependent upon large companies to supply our basic needs. And they are fully aware of this. Its for this exact reason they are able to jack up their prices whenever they feel like it, give us an explanation that makes no sense at all, and fully expect us to accept it and send them a check. If you look closely at my heating bill you can see that they raised everyone’s cost by 22% the previous month. Various people did the numbers and their costs did not go up by 22%. We are working through a recession, people have lost their jobs, and their solution to helping out families is raising their prices by 22%. Gotta love it!
Front View of My Oil Burner
As long as you have a decent supply of used motor oil you can heat your entire house, business, or garage for next to nothing. The most you will have to pay is a couple bucks plus some change in taxes for the hook up fee. This is to ensure that if something were to malfunction and your waste oil burner were to go down for several days you would have the ability switch back over to natural gas. But $8-$10 is nothing compared to the $250-$300 (very conservative number considering the area I have to heat) I would have to pay if I did not have a waste oil boiler. I saved over $2000 just this last winter. I have had my machine since 2007. That translates into $6,000 saved just calculating what I would have spent in heat for the last three winters. That figure does not include the rest of the year. Has my investment paid off for me? I’ll let you decide.
I am showing these numbers to impress upon the people reading this that the savings waste oil burners produce is amazing. I am surprised that more people do not have them. You are guaranteed to get back whatever you spend of them in 1-2 years. As long as you clean your boiler out when you are supposed to and make a concerted effort to filter your used motor or vegetable oil I can promise you that your device will be problem free (as long as it was not made on a Monday).
There are several companies that manufacture these machines for you to chose from. The model you will need will depend on how much you want to spend and how much area you need to heat. The basic concept is the same for all of them. Do yourself and your “pockets” a favor by checking them out. If you live on the East Coast or close by there is a company called Alternative Heating Systems, based in PA, that not only has some more information about oil burners but have several used and refurbished used boilers in a lot of models you can take a look at.
The idea of turning a material that is considered waste into something valuable should be a really fascinating concept for a lot of people. There are millions of gallons of waste oil generated every week and a lot of it is discarded and thrown out. A lot of it is turned into asphalt but not nearly enough of it is recycled or re-refined the way it should be. This is what makes the whole concept behind owning an oil burner so appealing to me. There is all this so called “waste” that’s literally an afterthought to everyone or business who produces it and with this machine you can turn it into an asset.
