McCarron, in Hanley Swan, said she felt lucky she had filled her 2,000 litre tank for \u00a31,200 days before the conflict started.<\/p>\n
The oil will last their household of four, which includes her mother, daughter and husband, until the autumn.<\/p>\n
“Had we ordered it a week and a half later, I think it would have cost us nearly \u00a31,000 more,” she said.<\/p>\n
The family has naturally been using less hot water during the heatwaves. <\/p>\n
But, mindful of fluctuating costs, they have also been taking steps to reduce their fuel consumption, while “squirreling away that extra little bit of cash”.<\/p>\n
“There’s a limit to what you can do with that given it’s our only source of heating and hot water,” she said.<\/p>\n
She believes improved protections for heating oil customers are “so important”, but would like more of a push towards renewable sources.<\/p>\n
“I think that the real solution is to stop using oil,” she added.<\/p>\n
“We’ve been looking into solar panels but there’s very little support out there for people who might want to look at alternate ways for running their household.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McCarron, in Hanley Swan, said she felt lucky she had filled her 2,000 litre tank for \u00a31,200 days…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-698394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}