Why should i have to pay for your convience?

[He Man]

oh man. Oil IS cheaper. i guess those ads trying to get people to not go to NG were right. The bill in my house for NG heating in the summer is baout $500 a month. But we also cook with gas, have gas water heaters.etc

[Popeye the Sailor]

i just happen to have this nifty chart hanging around

http://www.energykinetics.com/savingsHeatingFuelComparisons.shtml

Too bad they don't list the best of all.


Wood    (Pellets don't count).

[cyrus buelton]

speaking of paypal fees, over in the classifieds someone is trying to charge an extra 10$ in paypal fees on a 200$ purchase.

Fees on that would be no more that a tad over 6$.



40% gouge on a fee. That is what I can't stand. I will pay the fee exactly what it comes to, not 40% higher. So many people try this.

[DrDesmo]

You could, of course, just charge a " handling fee " much like the car dealers on eBay charge a " paperwork fee " of $200 - $600 per vehicle, buried in the fine print 

[cyrus buelton]

local car dealers even charge the document fee

I paid 250$ on my Monster when I bought from a dealer in stupid doc fees

[derby]

You could, of course, just charge a " handling fee " much like the car dealers on eBay charge a " paperwork fee " of $200 - $600 per vehicle, buried in the fine print 

hehehhe:

it's shipping and handling.

[herm]

Too bad they don't list the best of all.


Wood    (Pellets don't count).

since you asked........see the chart about 1/4 of the way down the page. in 2008 wood was almost 4x more expensive per BTU to heat your home

http://www.inspect-ny.com/heat/Current_Heating_Cost_Table.htm

[He Man]

Where are you suppose to get your wood from anyway? do you buy it? or is there a tree farm of some sort and you can just chop and pay for what you take?

You could, of course, just charge a " handling fee " much like the car dealers on eBay charge a " paperwork fee " of $200 - $600 per vehicle, buried in the fine print 

just another way for them to make money is all. AFAIK, they are just signing some papers. and maybe 1/8th of that are charged by the DMV.

[herm]

Where are you suppose to get your wood from anyway? do you buy it? or is there a tree farm of some sort and you can just chop and pay for what you take?

just another way for them to make money is all. AFAIK, they are just signing some papers. and maybe 1/8th of that are charged by the DMV.

your city boy is showing dude.

[He Man]

 

Subways and tall buildings.

[hbliam]

a cheap gas bill is probably about the only thing cheap about living in California

Jud, have you ever lived here? You constantly pop off about CA but I don't recall you ever having posted that you lived here.

Property is more expensive here but that's because it's here and not in Ohio. Other then that, stuff cost about the same and we get paid a bit more here for the most part. Not to mention, as far as food most everything is fresh because we grow our own fruits and vegetables, we have an Ocean full of seafood, and we make our own cheese and dairy products. We get to lanesplit, we don't have a "riding season", and we have Laguna Seca. I can smell the ocean from my overpriced house, I can see snow on the mountains from my front yard (in the winter), and I can be at the Baja 1000 in two hours.

We also have eBay and Paypal here making us money....

[NAKID]

^ All the reasons why I hope I can get a boat out of San Diego when all is said and done...

[herm]

i lived there (CA) for a bit, and lived next to it while working there for several years. my observation was that some things were a LOT more expensive, such as electricity, gasoline, and a few other commodities that slip my mind at the moment. other things were, if not cheaper, then at least comparable, and often fresher, such as produce and seafood. registering a car in CA was a huge expense, while in OR, it was so cheap that the state has a special task force to catch out of state people who try and register their cars illegally.

interestingly enough, my CA income tax was significantly lower than my OR income tax. I suppose that had to do with population size and the lack of sales tax in OR.........not entirely sure.

i will keep the rest of my CA observations to myself, since they are not germane to the topic at this point.

[redxblack]

Some of the electricity price and rolling brownouts were due to Enron's shenanigans.

[cyrus buelton]

Jud, have you ever lived here? You constantly pop off about CA but I don't recall you ever having posted that you lived here.

Nope, never personally lived in California.

However, that doesn't mean I know nothing about what it costs to live there.

Just because one is from the Midwest does not mean they live a "sheltered" life and don't know what it is like living in other states.


750k for a 3,000sq foot track home in San Diego is not my idea of a reasonable cost of living. But to each their own. or my Aunt selling some 1500sq ft house with a pool in Orange County for over a million.