Nigel-S
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not in my experience. lpg used to cost me more than heating oil and back then you couldn't switch suppliers.
i think it would still work out cheaper buying in wood to run a wood burner, if you aren't on mains gas.
I'm just speaking from my own experience and I appreciate everyone's situation is different. I'm not on mains gas so use propane and oil, neither cost a lot (propane approx. £120 last year, oil approx. £600 last year) and of course there's no standing charges. As for the wood, I have several acres of dense woodland to harvest from. Once a month I take the landy and trailer into the woods, I cut all the fallen wood into 16" lengths until I have a full trailer. Cost of fuel for landy and chainsaw, negligible.
I could buy in hardwood logs at £90 per trailer load (8x4 trailer), but I don't need to. Which brings me to the point that if you had to buy in logs you could easily burn £90 of logs per month. If that's what someone is willing to pay then fair play to them