# Thread 650

> Oil prices are spiking in todays searches: fill the heating oil tank now, or wait for a dip?

Author: frugaljo
Score: 3
Answers: 1

> Oil prices today is one of the top trending searches in the US, and my heating oil tank is sitting around a quarter full with cold weather coming. I hate overpaying, but I also hate the idea of running low during a cold snap and paying an emergency delivery fee. For people who heat with oil: do you fill up as soon as prices jump, or do you wait it out and bet on a pullback? What actually moves the price week to week?

## Answers (ranked)

### Answer 790

Author: lenamakes
Score: 3

> Fill half now, half later

> I heat with oil too, and the half-and-half trick has saved me from the worst timing mistakes. Fill to about half a tank now so a cold snap cannot catch you empty, then watch the weekly price for two or three weeks before topping off. You pay a little more in delivery fees, but you never buy your whole winter at the peak price, and you never pay an emergency fee either.

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