ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2014\u00a0New Yorkers heating their homes with oil can expect to pay a lot more this winter. The average price for a gallon is up 66% compared to last year.<\/p>\n
Nathan Blowers works at Triple-O Heating, Cooling, Electrical & Plumbing. He recently sent an email to his team, breaking down the increase in fuel oil prices and customers should expect.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t expect it to jump as much as it did,\u201d said Blowers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, the price of home heating oil is more than double this year compared to last.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Currently, the price of heating oil at around $6 a gallon. Compare that to propane at just $3 a gallon. As an HVAC service manager, Blowers says he\u2019s starting to get questions from homeowners.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe average cost is at a point where we can make a good comparison to see if switching to a different fuel, say propane or natural gas, is a better value for you,” said Blowers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
George Conboy, chairman of Brighton Securities, a financial services firm, says that while there have been drops in oil prices in previous weeks, he doesn\u2019t expect it to continue.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI would love to think that the trend of lower prices today will carry us through the winter with lower prices. I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect that,” said Conboy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Conboy says he\u2019s already seeing consumers begin to make changes to their spending habits to afford heating their homes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt might mean you don’t buy a new set of clothes, you postpone a home improvement,” said Conboy. \u201cBut it’s not unreasonable to think that your utility bill will be higher this winter than it was last winter.\u201d<\/p>\n
As winter gets closer, Blowers says he expects to more consumers looking into making a money-saving switch.<\/p>\n
Some tips to help save on your heating bill this winter include keeping your house weather-stripped, reducing the flow of cold air into it and making sure you\u2019re maintaining your fuel oil furnace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2014\u00a0New Yorkers heating their homes with oil can expect to pay a lot more this winter.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2025,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,18479,115,200],"class_list":["post-354045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-community-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-rachel-niemi","tag-rochester","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}