Did you Know?

ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD

Four out of five repairs can be prevented with regular maintenance. A highly trained technician can tune up your system as part of your service plan.

Demand can overwhelm a discount oil company’s supply. When temperature fall, companies who do not secure their fuel ahead of time may not have enough fuel to deliver to all of their customers.

Anytime prices rise, it’s easy to be attracted by a deal. However, you may be putting your family’s comfort and security at risk. Not all companies can provide the peace of mind and value that a full service customer has.

Some companies try to lure new customers by offering “come-on” prices. But it never lasts. Eventually you get a fuel bill that spins you into a sticker shock.

When the weather gets rough you may be disappointed with the way a discount oil company treats their new customer base. They tend to leave new customers behind and concentrate on their existing customers.

Heating oil prices have been painfully high these past few years, and the Price of a barrel of crude oil is making things worse. We know this is causing hardship for many of you.

Please remember that we are on your side during these difficult times. When things get bad, the solution is not to close your doors and go out of business. The key is to maintain a positive outlook and plan accordingly. Like you, we hope prices fall soon. Just remember that no matter how tough times get and what conditions we encounter, we are here for you. We may not be able to control the prices or the market but we can control the excellent service provided to customers.

When you decide to become a customer with a full service company here’s what you can expect. Emergency Response. A professional staff. The comfort and convenience of automatic delivery. Equipment Installations by trained professionals. Service Contracts, 10 month budget plans, and efficient service.

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Heating system efficiency is a measure of the amount of usable heat extracted from the potential energy of the fuel. These efficiencies are important because they reflect the way our equipment is operating in today’s field.

Oil burning home heating equipment is one of the cleanest sources of combustion used. New oil burners release near zero levels of smoke and soot.

The air emissions from oil heat equipment are much lower than most other combustion sources in emissions rate and total amounts released each year.

Wood Heat is not the environmental cure the renewable resource promoters would have you believe it is. Wood heat: messes up your home, leaves your furniture dry, creates sinus problems, pollutes the air, and hurts plants. When wood is burned it recreates CO2, thus releasing carbon dioxide into the air.

Methane is a greenhouse gas. Natural gas is made of methane. Natural is 30 to 70 times more of a greenhouse producing gas than carbon dioxide.

Did You Know?

Everyday hundreds of thousands of buyers and sellers of crude oil from around the world compete in the organized contract markets (sometimes called “futures” markets) and spot markets to ensure that they can meet their needs within the daily balance of supply, demand and price. With so many competing needs in the market, there are plenty of buyers willing and able to pay to keep their countries, refineries, and economies running.

Crude oil prices fluctuate on a minute-by-minute basis and a change in market conditions-such as concerns about a political disturbance in a producing country, or a hurricane threat in the Gulf of Mexico could cause prices to increase for crude oil that’s not planned to be delivered until months into the future. Those higher future prices, in turn, can cause market participants to alter their perceptions of the current balance of supply and demand. The resulting reaction might then be a building of inventories in anticipation of tightness in the future market. Consequently, crude oil is taken from the current market supply causing the price to rise for the marker crudes and equivalently all other crudes bought and sold during the trading day.

Changes in refined petroleum products affect prices as well. Petroleum is the major component of product costs. The Federal Trade Commission concluded that changes in crude oil prices account for 85% of the changes in the price of gasoline consumed in the U.S.

Government can help to ensure that fuels remain affordable and in sufficient quantities to meet demand. By increasing access to non-park, non-wilderness, onshore and offshore federal properties, reducing permitting costs and delays, expediting approvals for expanding LNG terminals, and establishing timely and straightforward regulatory processes for infrastructure expansion, the United States could become less dependent on others and better able to plan around world price fluctuations. For more information on oil prices and what influences them visit www.api.org.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) estimates that between 200 and 300 Carbon Monoxide deaths are caused each year by residential appliances. Gas powered equipment account for approximately 82% of these deaths while oil heaters cause about 6%. It should be noted that the CPSC statistics are low estimates because they are based solely on the review of death certificates and CO poisoning is often difficult to diagnose.

Wood stoves used in homes produce CO at a rate that is about 790 times higher than home oil burners according to the EPA. Wood stoves can form approximately 20,000 ppm of CO, making them a serious health risk if the combustion gases are not completely vented from the home. Wood stoves are vented mainly by chimneys without mechanical exhaust fans; special attention is required at the end of the cycle because the draft produced by the chimney decreases the temperature. This can allow products of wood combustion that contain high levels of CO to escape into the home.