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I suppose we pretty much have to suck it up to a degree. We are rural so gas heating is out of the qustion (Electric would be cheaper than bottled gas!) have just installed solar hot water with a direct gas booster after waiting ten years for the old gas storage unit to fail and justify the change over. We have electric cooking for the same cost reasons (Although we might need to look into that and reasess between bottled gas and electric) and have two adults (My wife and I share a property with my mother) at home all day who both spend much of the day working on computers.
Without seriously freezing I am not sure there is much we can do to markedly reduce winter consumption, about the only string we have in the bow this year is to install an air transfer kit to move heat from the wood heated end (We have a pretty good wood supply on the place) to the reverse cycle end, but a decent one is liable to cost around a thousand and will take a couple of years to pay itself back in reduced power consumption.
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