The History Of The Pennsylvania Oil Boom And Petroleum Industry

We bought the house last march, and it is the first house we own, so we’re still getting used to what the winter bill should look like, but since october it has averaged to about 80$ a month. In the summer it was about 35& or less since we don’t use anything to cool down but our windows. We live in Central Pennsylvania and have oil heat. My question is, is the furnace to blame for this spike in our energy bill now in the winter? I understand the fact that the water heater is also working more now in the winter, but I just want to hear from other pepole I guess. Is this spike in our electric bill normal? Thank you for your answers.
I am not using space heaters or bathroom heaters. I cook most of the meals at home and use washer/dryer to do about 5-7 loads a week.

Your furnace has a big fan in it that draws a BIG slug of power each time it starts up. Once running the current draw drops way back. Whether you burn gas or oil doesn’t make any difference in the electric bill. In fact you get more heat from oil than gas so the fan should run less. Some folks run the fan all the time so that start-up power draw doesn’t take place. You could turn everything off in the house, go outside and observe the power meter, is it still turning?? If so you missed something. Observe how fast it is spinning, then start turning things back on. Does any one thing cause it to spin fast, if so that one is drawing a lot of current. While doing this make sure the furnace is off, then turn it on (fan on) and watch for that spike in meter spin. You could do all of this with current meters but you should get a good feel as to what is drawing the current. Don’t forget to turn on the dryer, run the hot water so it comes one, etc. Have fun….. And yes, the furnace is to blame for the spike……

We bought the house last march, and it is the first house we own, so we’re still getting used to what the winter bill should look like, but since october it has averaged to about 80$ a month. In the summer it was about 35& or less since we don’t use anything to cool down but our windows. We live in Central Pennsylvania and have oil heat. My question is, is the furnace to blame for this spike in our energy bill now in the winter? I understand the fact that the water heater is also working more now in the winter, but I just want to hear from other pepole I guess. Is this spike in our electric bill normal? Thank you for your answers.
I am not using space heaters or bathroom heaters. I cook most of the meals at home and use washer/dryer to do about 5-7 loads a week.

Your furnace has a big fan in it that draws a BIG slug of power each time it starts up. Once running the current draw drops way back. Whether you burn gas or oil doesn’t make any difference in the electric bill. In fact you get more heat from oil than gas so the fan should run less. Some folks run the fan all the time so that start-up power draw doesn’t take place. You could turn everything off in the house, go outside and observe the power meter, is it still turning?? If so you missed something. Observe how fast it is spinning, then start turning things back on. Does any one thing cause it to spin fast, if so that one is drawing a lot of current. While doing this make sure the furnace is off, then turn it on (fan on) and watch for that spike in meter spin. You could do all of this with current meters but you should get a good feel as to what is drawing the current. Don’t forget to turn on the dryer, run the hot water so it comes one, etc. Have fun….. And yes, the furnace is to blame for the spike……

We bought the house last march, and it is the first house we own, so we’re still getting used to what the winter bill should look like, but since october it has averaged to about 80$ a month. In the summer it was about 35& or less since we don’t use anything to cool down but our windows. We live in Central Pennsylvania and have oil heat. My question is, is the furnace to blame for this spike in our energy bill now in the winter? I understand the fact that the water heater is also working more now in the winter, but I just want to hear from other pepole I guess. Is this spike in our electric bill normal? Thank you for your answers.
I am not using space heaters or bathroom heaters. I cook most of the meals at home and use washer/dryer to do about 5-7 loads a week.

Your furnace has a big fan in it that draws a BIG slug of power each time it starts up. Once running the current draw drops way back. Whether you burn gas or oil doesn’t make any difference in the electric bill. In fact you get more heat from oil than gas so the fan should run less. Some folks run the fan all the time so that start-up power draw doesn’t take place. You could turn everything off in the house, go outside and observe the power meter, is it still turning?? If so you missed something. Observe how fast it is spinning, then start turning things back on. Does any one thing cause it to spin fast, if so that one is drawing a lot of current. While doing this make sure the furnace is off, then turn it on (fan on) and watch for that spike in meter spin. You could do all of this with current meters but you should get a good feel as to what is drawing the current. Don’t forget to turn on the dryer, run the hot water so it comes one, etc. Have fun….. And yes, the furnace is to blame for the spike……

My dad wants to drill on oil rich land from Marcellus Shale. Where is the best place to drill? If you have any maps that would be appreciated.

P.S. Hes been mostly looking in Pennsylvania but if there is better places to drill that would be very great. Can you say the city name. Please, thanks.

There’s a map on this link. But basically, if you drill just about anywhere in West Virginia, the western third of Pennsylvania, or the southern third of New York (state), and drill far enough, you’ll hit the Marcellus formation. But if you’re dad’s looking for oil, he’s going to be disappointed. The shale formation is a harbor for natural gas, not oil. Right now, the natural gas industry is in the tank. No one is bothering to buy land anymore, because even for the huge companies, the profit just isn’t worth it. I’m sure that they’ll hold on to what land they have until prices go back up, but for your dad, unless you guys have the money to buy land and sit on it – I’d try something else.

I’m in pennsylvania and obviously 15 and I want to get a job at self owned garage would they hire me to do odd jobs like sweep up clean up oil ect. would I be able to work here and do stuff like sweep and what not or do I have to be 16-18

My freind age 15 works at a auto garage, his job is light repair and moving the cars/trucks + some cleaning, but thats in Canada.

One can only imagine the astonishment and glee with which Russia’s leaders are observing Nancy Pelosi’s nearly hysterical determination to prevent the United States from developing its own oil resources, and the fecklessness of Democratic Presidential nominee B. Hussein Obama in the face of their aggression against an American ally.

B. Hussein Obama is too arrogant to change. As self-anointed lecturer-in-chief and secular American messiah, it’s he and only he, don’t you know, that knows THE answer?
That said, the reason, I believe, that Obama and his camp are paralyzed by these current controversies is that they expected the mainstream media in the U.S. to continue its journalistic malfeasance and give him the free ride he got for months.
For all its purported savvy, team Obama appears to never have contemplated it would actually have to answer questions relating to who Obama is or pre-tends to be–questions about his character, associations, judgment, politics, elitism, inexperience, ignorance of economics and international affairs, left-ism, disdain for unborn life, inherent racism and bitterness and fatigued po-litical solutions.
As for the suggestion that he start bashing oil companies about high prices: Why not? According to his Philadelphia lecture, it’s not just non-black peo-ple, but especially white people–actually "typical white people" on which he’s expert–that are the source of bitterness and more in the black commu-nity, but it’s those corporations who dare get involved in capitalism.
Perhaps while he’s bashing, though, the junior senator from Illinois might turn the mirror on himself and the rest of Congress, especially those career-ists in it–and especially those in his own political party–and ask: Why is there no coherent energy policy in the U.S.? Why is it, as fuel rich as it is, a net importer now of not just oil but natural gas? Why has partisanship and coziness with special-interest so-called environmentalists been preferred over freedom from energy slavery?

As for something new in his campaign, how about this: B. Hussein Obama actu-ally explains who he is, what he stands for and why, and what he means by "change"?
Almost forgot: How it is that his legislative record, especially the U.S. Sen-ate, shows essentially no bipartisanship, but that of consistent liberal/leftist voting and betrayal of agreements he has made across the aisle.
Respectfully, given his remarks after the Pennsylvania primary, that chal-lenges to his character as well as political and cultural mind-sets are mere distractions and should be off limits, I think he’s too narcissistic–and, frankly, too woefully unaware–to grasp how truly out of sync he is with most Americans.
He is and remains a counterfeit. And no amount of window dressing or tweaking now will undo that. Not even replacement of his political glass jaw will help, either.

B. Hussein Obama remains opposed to new offshore drilling (although he now says he would accept a highly restricted version as part of a comprehensive package). Just last week, he claimed that if only Americans would inflate their tires properly and get regular tune-ups, "we could save all the oil that they’re talking about getting off drilling."
This is bizarre. By any reasonable calculation of annual tire-inflation and tune-up savings, the Outer Continental Shelf holds nearly a hundred times as much oil. As for oil shale, also under federal moratorium, after a thousand years of driving with Obama-inflated tires and Obama-tuned engines, we would still have saved only one-fifth the oil shale available in the United States.

God Bless America

Are you mental? How many times can you ask this stupid question?
One more thing … 2 points!

Our only finding of a war of mass destruction turned out to be at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave .Look at the economic toll on Iraq,Our Troops,Our oil prices and the Economy in general. Thanks George and GOOD BY !! really wish it could have been sooner

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your question has poor grammar and structure and im not quite sure what you’re asking.

but even though Bush did a horrible job he did one thing right–kept another attack from happening. all the statistics said it was inevitable and us going to Afghanistan and Iraq wouldnt stop attacks. well there hasnt been one. i cant remember how many previous attacks on the trade center there were before 9/11 but a foreign attack hasnt happened again and it doesnt look like there will be. if he hadnt been insanely driven to make the war on terror his pet project and we hadnt stayed another attack would have happened and given the terrorists more momentum.

a. Jimmie Johnson’s number 48 Chevrolet Impala

b. Pennsylvania route 62 between Oil City and Warren

c. any Mexican teams Jersey

this is funny haha

Hillary Clinton is saying as president she would defend any nation in the Middle East with U.S. Forces should they be attacked by Iran, including the oil producing nations (OPEC)! This has us in trouble in Iraq, why would Hillary Clinton want to expand the same mistake George W. Bush has made and now has America in a quagmire, losing American lives and American treasure? America cannot intervene in every Middle East war or conflict, America is not the policeman of the world, the U.S. Constitution forbids intervention in foreign affairs of other countries! Hillary said, she would respond militarily for any attack on a Persian Gulf state…Hillary would not have this authority without Congressional approval as U.S. president, this is part of our systems checks and balances! Why did Hillary make such a statement in the Pennsylvania debate? She is advocating military action on behalf of dictatorships and foreign nations who do not have democracy and use America’s military to protect them?
Hillary already said, Israel, but others in addition to that nation in the Persian Gulf region!
Beanie: You need to read the U.S Constitution, we are a sovereign nation, not the world police or military! Saudi Arabia sells us oil, but they also sell oil to our enemies! Should Iran attack Saudi Arabia or any of the other oil producing nations, a Congressional approval is needed to go to war, otherwise America is a dictatorship! Although George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were wrong on the reasons why they went to war with Iraq, they still had to get congressional approval! They is no umbrella coverage…each act of war must be approved separately and at different times by the u.S. Congress or it would be an illegal act. Middle East countries can defend themselves, spend their money to do so. America is going broke and why should American service personnel fight and die for Saudi Oil when they do not even allow women "Equal rights"! Hillary Clinton would not be allowed to drive a vehicle in Saudi Arabia, women are forbidden…so young American women are going to fight and die for them?
Hillary Clinton will not even be president, this is how foolish all these scenerio’s she is giving about umbrella military coverage is, not to mention anti- U.S. Constitutional! The presidency will be either McCain or Obama!
Monica K: You sound right…you make the most sense on my question! I hate to burst these people’s bubble, but America has its hands full with our two war fronts…we do not want war with Iran at this time! Anyone who knows the score on that nation, they are much more powerful than Iraq was and their military is much more larger! America’s military is stretched to the max, now and our troops & equipment is wearing out faster than it can be replaced. America does not have the military size it needs to address multiple war fronts unless its going to use its nuclear arsenal! When I served we had over 2 million more troops, than America does now!

We have to remember that Hillary Clinton’s candidacy is completely focus group driven. She wants to win over some Republican or independent voters who have been taken in by the Bush machine spitting out the malignment of Iran, even though the National Intelligence Estimate has come out saying there is no threat. Hillary knows through her focus groups that if she drops a few lines that sounds like she would be willing to ‘bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran’ that she may win those Republican or independent swing votes. So she invented a scenario where she could justifiably air out those sentiments, which could only be a scenario where Iran is cast as the terrible agressor. (When look at the reality, who has been the terrible agressor in the mideast? Who has de-stabilized the region? Bush used us to do that!) These debates are only stages that are looked at as opportunitie to manipulate voters–most of the time.

Sarah was making a campaign speech and said McCain/Palin have a plan for "energy independence." Answer: clean coal. Also that there is as much clean coal in Pennsylvania as there is oil in the entire Middle East.

Also that Joe Biden opposes going this route.

How much is she right and how much is she wrong?

He did said that, No to clean coal, he also said that they are better alternatives, i think so to.