Merry Christmas!
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008To all of our valued customers and friends,
Merry Christmas!
Peace….
from everyone here at Fuel Services, Inc.
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Natural Gas or OilHeat?
Monday, December 8th, 2008Hello,
One of our vendors we do business with convinced me to blog this story.. so here I go.
Last weekend we received a no heat call like we do every winter’s day… except this service call was for a natural gas customer. We told him we couldn’t help him. I quote the customer who called now… ” But the gas company won’t be out here for three days to fix it”
We get more and more of these calls each and every year. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to help this person as we didn’t have a gas tech available and we only service our own clients. Our clients always come first! (in the interest of full disclosure, we do a limited amount of gas service for a few established clients)
One of the beautiful things about oilheat is choice! You have a choice of who you do business with. You have a choice of who you let come into your home and service your expensive heating equipment and rely upon to make sure you have product in your tank!
One of the beautiful things about the gas company (if you are an oilheat marketer at least) is YOU DON’T HAVE A CHOICE! The gas company doesn’t care if your heat goes out at 5pm on Christmas Eve, just in time for the Turkey Dinner. You just can’t call up Westfield Gas and Electric and switch over to Holyoke Gas and Electric! You are prety stuck and the gas companies know it!
I feel sorry for those that got baited by the gas companies over this past summer because oil prices sky rocketed. We lost a few long time customers to the gas companies, even though we did our best to explain to them they might want to reconsider. You just can’t put a price on service people! There is value in knowing that someone like us will be there for you on Christmas Day if your furnace all of a sudden decides to get stubborn.
Enough said…
Happy Thanksgiving!
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008I just wanted to wish all a safe and happy Thanksgiving holiday!
Peace…..
Weather Update!
Thursday, November 20th, 2008I figured I would notify all of weather updates as we receive them. Being in the Heating Oil business, we get special updates from time to time.
Not to scare anyone, but this source is usually spot on! After this sentence, all content is from meteorologist John Bagioni.
SPECIAL PATTERN ALERT FOR THE NORTHERN MIDDLE ATLANTIC, NEW YORK AND NEW ENGLAND REGIONS
FAX-ALERT WEATHER SERVICE, LLC
Issued
: Thursday, November 20, 2008 2:15 PM Release
UNUSUALLY COLD EARLY DECEMBER GAINING MORE SUPPORT…
RECORD COLD AND HIGH ENERGY DEMAND A GROWING CONCERN!!!
PATTERN TREND UPDATE
While I will be expanding on the threat for a very cold early and mid December in my normal Friday update, I felt the need to get a brief pattern alert update out today due to the potential for an unusually cold early December period.
I have been onboard with a cold December for a long time now, but have been thinking that the truly cold, possibly record setting cold, would wait until after the first week of the month.
Current trends, both hemispherical and model-wise, are now pointing toward an earlier intrusion of some very serious cold into the central and eastern U.S. very early in December.
I am not going to get overly specific right now, but this could equal some of the bitter outbreaks of December 1989 and could be record setting if the pattern amplifies to the extent of some of the modeling. Even if the modeling is overdone, the cold period that would evolve in early December would be very significant and would lead to a very impressive enhancement of heating demand across all of the Northeast & New England regions.
Meteorologist John Bagioni
FAX-ALERT WEATHER SERVICE, LLC
BURLINGTON, CT
BioHeat® is Back!
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008We are again delivering BioHeat to our customers that request it! The blend we are currently offering is a 5% blend. The cost is averaging about a dime more a gallon than our regular #2. (at today’s prices at least) We deliver BioFuel on an automatic delivery basis.
For those unfamiliar with BioHeat, please refer to the National BioDiesel Board link below.
http://www.biodiesel.org/markets/hom/faqs.asp
The State of Massachusetts recently passed legislation that all home heating oil must have at least a 2% bio blend by 2010. We are proud to be able to offer this product earlier than mandated. Feel free to email me personally with any questions you might have. If you wish to change your deliveries to Bio, just give one of our customer service representatives a call.
Thanks