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Women in the Industry
Over the years while working in many phases of this industry, I have come to realize that one of the…
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What makes a happy customer?
When it gets cold out, we want it to be nice and warm and toasty inside our customers' homes, right?
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To train, or not to train?
The many of you who know me know that I have been an advocate for training since my career in…
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Why do we need a draft regulator?
Draft regulators or barometric dampers are devices used to regulate the draft on oil-fired furnaces, boilers, and water heaters
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Warm air system getting you smoked?
Last month you should have learned that when I look at a system, I think like the system in…
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What’s the price?
As we leave behind some of the hottest New England record temperatures, with some reaching over the 100…
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Oh, how I long for those lazy summer days!
Summer is almost over. The lazy days of doing the annual tune-ups and the occasional service call are over. Now…
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From the mouths of oil dealers
Many of you are probably still suffering from the pain of last season's oil prices, past due accounts and possibly…
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Oh, how I long for those lazy summer days!
The lazy days of doing the annual tune-ups and the occasional service call are over
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The independence of your own fuel supply
Natural gas can offer the homeowner some compelling arguments for conversion. However, one advantage with oil or propane heat…
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Efficiency & Total Energy Conservation
I'm sure over the past several years the readers of this article will more than once have heard the term…
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This stuff just does not burn!
Boy, I just love to read all the 'war stories" that we all have
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Business diversity is the chorus of the industry
Selling fuel oil and oil-burning appliances is the core business model of FON‘s readers and it remains the core…
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HAS BUSINESS CHANGED?
Many of you may be saying that 'business is not the way it used to be" and, of course, you're…
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It happened to you? Me too!
An Underground Storage Tank (I still call them buried oil tanks) is the place where we keep the lifeblood of…
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Who’s The Real Competition?
I have often asked company owners, managers and suppliers who their real competition is and I get many different…
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Nothing says springtime like a meeting with our political representatives
I’m on the soapbox once again this month ‘ I’m going to cover the need to become politically active.…
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Is fuel oil a dying industry?
An associate of mine told me that he recently attended a business meeting and was told that the…
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Wow, a really diverse winter!
In March, we talked about how the winter was like those of years gone by. Long days, longer…
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Put Up or Shut Up
As noted in the lead news article and as we have covered in the pages of this magazine for several…
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