Enough to warm your hearth: keeping your home warm while cutting fuel bills

By Malcolm Morrison, THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - There are two huge reasons for seeking out ways to cut down on your heating bills this winter. The first is the green reason - why pollute the earth any more than necessary? - and the other is thrift. Whether you heat with natural gas, electricity or oil, keeping a home warm through the Canadian winter is expensive. The head of the Canadian Gas Association reckons that consumers will see a 10 per cent difference in the price of natural gas this year over last winter. Michael Cleland, whose group represents the country's natural gas delivery industry, says that's because gas for this winter was bought by distributors several months ago when prices were higher. People who use heating oil will be hit even harder, with the price rising to about $1.14 a litre compared with last... [read full story]