Oil heater=crazy power bill!

[MrLang]

Are you sure it's the oil heater? Is it an old oil heater? A big room?

My snake room is a 12 x 12 foot room in the basement. Two of the four walls are the foundation cinder blocks-no insulation and it has two windows that are garbage. I plan to insulate the windows this winter, but my bill only goes up about $30 a month from running my oil heater almost non-stop. I have it on a thermostat set to 75.

Thank god. It's my first month in my new place and I was seriously freaking out reading this thread as I haven't received my first electric bill.

I'm using one of those dinky electric fan powered space heaters. It runs probably 25% of the time. I think the watts were only 400 or so, so I'm hoping it's not too bad.