To add to my earlier post and expand on the cost of heading with my Modine Hot Dawg, I went back through the past years bills and compiled the cost and cubic footage for your reference as well as what the average temperatures are in my location, which you can find here for comparison.
https://www.timeanddate.com/scripts/go.php?type=climate
It turns out that since I have a separate meter on my shop I pay a minimum charge of $17.60 per month even if my gas usage is zero. My average cost even with that extra cost was $23.75 per month for the past 12 months and for the actual 9 months where any gas was used my average cost was $25.79 per month and I averaged 2111 Cubic feet per month. Since a gallon of propane = 35.97 cubic feet you can translate the propane cost for 2111 average cubic feet into 58.7 gallons per month and at the rate of
$1.599/gallon that would be $93.86 or almost 4 times what I'm paying for natural gas. That surprised me.
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COMPRESSED PROPANE (GASEOUS FORM) EQUIVALENCY INFORMATION: At 14.73 lbs. of pressure per square inch (psi) and 60 degrees Fahrenheit:
- 1 cubic foot propane = 0.0278 gallons propane
- 100 cubic feet propane = 2.78 gallons propane
- 1 gallon propane = 35.97 cubic feet propane
- 100 gallons propane = 3597 cubic feet propane
"NATURAL GAS" means naturally occurring mixtures of hydrocarbon gases and vapors consisting principally of methane, whether in gaseous or liquid form.
NATURAL GAS (GASEOUS FORM) EQUIVALENCY INFORMATION: At 14.73 lbs. of pressure per square inch (psi) and 60 degrees Fahrenheit:
- 1 cubic foot natural gas = 0.012 gallons natural gas
- 100 cubic feet natural gas = 1.2 gallons natural gas
- 1 gallon natural gas = 82.62 cubic feet natural gas
- 100 gallons natural gas = 8262 cubic feet natural gas