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Frugal and Energy Efficient Living

lumberjack_jeff

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7. The cost per million BTU's of various fuels

Reply to Orrex (Original post)

Sun Feb 1, 2015, 01:50 PM

Feb 2015

http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/heatcalc.xls

At $4.42/gallon The cost for a useful 1M BTU's of heat from a vented kerosene heater is $41. This compares well with propane at $49 and poorly with baseboard heaters at $35.

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