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Gas furnace or fireplace - which more EFFICIENT?
QUESTION:I observed that gas has gone up 25% this year. Someone
posted back that you cannot do that kind of side by side comparison.
I noted that I supplied the price of gas in cost per therm. That
is like cost per gallon, only using a different measurement. You
can directly compare the $1 per therm cost this year to the 80 cents
per therm cost last year. It is totally valid to do that, just
like I can say that 59 cents a gallon for gasoline in 1975 (which
I saw on the Rockford Files today) is about 1/3 of the $1.70 a
gallon price I filled up with today.
ANSWER: Yes, but when the original question was why the bills for
this winter appear to be significantly worse than JUST
the price of gas would account for, and the bills are listed
month by month, you do need to consider degree days
when comparing year to year differences, as well as the
cost of the gas per therm to decide if the significant increase
in the total cost is likely to be due to more than just the gas price.
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