# ‘I’ve taken an extra job to pay for heating oil’

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/ive-taken-an-extra-job-to-pay-for-heating-oil/
- Published: 2026-11-06T06:06:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-06T06:18:17+00:00
- Original publisher: BBC Business (publisher lean: Centre)
- Original article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmj47j7e92gvo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
- Topics: Business

## Key points

- East Sussex resident takes a second job to afford heating oil.
- Filling a 1,000-litre tank can cost more than £970.
- Government says it is offering support and reforming the sector.

## Summary

Sheila Williams, who lives alone in a park home in Golden Cross, East Sussex, has taken a winter waitress job to help pay for heating oil. She says her oil bill has doubled since the start of 2026, illustrating the pressure on households outside the gas network as winter approaches.

A 1,000-litre tank can cost more than £970 to fill, and supplier Jon Reardon said average oil prices had doubled since the war began in the Middle East. Another resident, Nigel Wanstall, said he could not afford to refill his tank and was relying on an open fire and an electric blanket. The government says it has pledged £53m for vulnerable households, removed a 4% tariff on home heating oil and is working to regulate suppliers.

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