Fuel Oil News
After a series of fires and explosions on Sept. 13 in communities in the Merrimack Valley, Columbia Gas of Massachusetts said it would pay for conversions to other fuels for customers that lost natural gas service and wanted to switch. The number of Columbia Gas customers that have opted to ...
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Fuel Oil Dealers Are Converting Some Gas Customers in Merrimack Valley
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Court Vacates Permit for Mountain Valley Pipeline
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Columbia Gas Will Pay for Conversions to Other Fuels
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Columbia Gas to Replace Merrimack Valley Distribution System After Fires, Explosions, a Death and Dozens of Injuries
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Star Group Offers 25% Matching AEC Contribution
Fuels
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NORA Outgoing Chair Tom Santa’s Research Legacy
The term of Tom Santa, chairman of the National Oilheat Research Alliance, expires at the end of the year. For decades, Santa, of Santa Energy, Bridgeport, Conn., has been a strong advocate of oilheat research. He was an active participant in many Brookhaven Technology Conferences, with a particular interest in ...
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Michael Devine Joins World Energy
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Fighting Against Calls for a Carbon Tax
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NATSO Hails Proposed RFS Obligations
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NBB Presents Seminars on Biodiesel
Operations
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Embracing Technology to Grow Your Propane Business
Brian Kay, business unit leader at iRely, headquartered in Fort Wayne, Ind., knows from experience that it’s an unlikely fuel dealer that embraces technology. “We see resistance,” Kay said. Typically, a propane company runs office software for “fifteen-plus years,” and they treat the software “like a beater car,” running it ...
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Work Truck Show: March 5-8 in Indianapolis
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Dead River Acquires Cheshire Oil
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Wills Group Raises Over $525,000 for Blackie Wills Community Fund
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DataOnline’s Chet Reshamwala to Become CEO
Blog
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NEFI’s New Era
Those of you on the fuel oil side of the business probably know the New England Fuel Institute, known by most as “NEFI.” If your company is a heating oil retailer in the Northeast, your company is, or at one time has been, a member of this association, writes columnist ...
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Wi-Fi Comes to HVAC
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We Need to Keep Fighting
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On Setting a Price for Your Company
Blog
NEFI’s New Era
Those of you on the fuel oil side of the business probably know the New England Fuel Institute, known by most as “NEFI.” If your company is a heating oil retailer in the Northeast, your company is, or at one time has been, a member of this association, writes columnist ...
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Wi-Fi Comes to HVAC
Before I begin to elaborate on this subject, let’s review just what Wi-Fi is. According to PC Magazine’s encyclopedia of technology terms, Wi-Fi is “the standard wireless local area network (WLAN) technology for connecting computers and myriad electronic devices to each other and to the Internet… Every laptop, tablet and ...
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We Need to Keep Fighting
Many people think lobbying in Washington, D.C., is unamerican and only protects special interests of big corporations. My experiences tell me just the opposite. Sure, big business wants to protect their interests, but many smaller family-owned businesses need to protect their families, their employees, and their industry. This point was ...
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On Setting a Price for Your Company
What a seller takes home after the sale is more important than the price the company sells for, writes columnist Steven Abbate: After years of hearing that companies can’t be valued by the gallon, owners are beginning to grasp the idea that companies are valued based on return on investment, ...
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