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The Berks-Schuylkill Oil Heat Assn (BSOHA) gathered at Fighter’s Heaven, the former Muhammad Ali Training Camp in Deer Lake, Pennsylvania, on Sept. 16 for a social mixer and night of food, music, and comradery within its membership. Oil dealers and guests from surrounding associations and the Pennsylvania Petroleum Association also joined in. Fighters Heaven is currently owned by Mike Madden (son ...

Consumers and community leaders are urged to “Be a Net-Zero Hero” in the New York State Energy Coalition’s new marketing campaign running through April, 2022. The new campaign, launched Sept. 5, highlights Bioheat fuel’s path to a net-zero carbon future, as “The Renewable Home Heating Fuel” that promotes cleaner air … is better for our planet …  is better for ...

Navigating interchange, the pricing matrix behind credit card pricing, is complex enough, writes Fuel Oil News contributor Larry Richmond, but now that complexity has been compounded by unexpected program changes and price increases from Visa Credit. It’s not good news for the heating fuels industry, Richmond says: Simply put, your Visa credit processing rates increased 25% – 50% overnight. The ...

To address an “acute transportation funding challenge,” Pennsylvania’s Transportation Revenue Options Commission recommends, among other steps, implementing tolls on bridges. The proposal for bridge tolls is included in a report that the Commission submitted to Gov. Tom Wolf. Here, lightly edited for clarity and length, is an excerpt: The Major Bridge P3 Initiative is the first alternative funding initiative of ...

HOP Energy, White Plains, N.Y., acquired Dominick Fuel, a full-service heating fuels delivery business located in Norwalk, Connecticut, Cetane Associates announced. A. Dominick & Sons was founded in 1945 by Andrew “Andy” Dominick, Sr., with the intention of turning it into a family business. His three sons were each given a chance, at age 16, to accompany their father on ...

The NEFI Legends Awards Dinner honored some of the leading women of the liquid heating fuel industry. The dinner was held at the HEAT Show, Tuesday, September 14. Each of these honorees has helped promote the success of women in the industry, as well as the success of the industry itself. Their achievements are nothing short of legendary. The honorees ...

Brideau Energy Corp., Fitchburg, Massachusetts, acquired substantially all the operating assets related to Harrington Oil, Inc., a full-service heating oil business in Holden, Massachusetts, announced Cetane Associates. The Harrington brothers, Pat, Joe, and Brian, learned the ropes of the oil heat industry from their father Joseph Harrington, founder of Holden Heating Company in 1953. (Holden Heating was sold in the ...

The Kenworth new medium duty models are now in production at the PACCAR assembly plant in Ste-Thérèse, Québec.  The vehicles serve a variety of applications including fuel oil and propane, cargo and reefer van, beverage, tow and recovery, utility and government, landscaping, fire, mechanics/service, dump and mixer. “It’s great to launch this new lineup into production at the PACCAR Ste-Thérèse plant,” said Kevin ...

“Blue” hydrogen – an energy source that involves a process for making hydrogen by using methane in natural gas – is being lauded by many as a clean, green energy to help reduce global warming. But Cornell and Stanford University researchers believe it may harm the climate more than burning fossil fuel, writes Blaine Friedlander in Cornell Chronicle, a publication ...

The California Fuel Cell Partnership (CaFCP) released what it called “a new foundational document” for heavy-duty class 8 fuel cell electric trucks (FCETs), “Fuel Cell Electric Trucks: A Vision for Freight Movement in California and Beyond,” that envisions 70,000 trucks supported by 200 heavy-duty truck stations by 2035. “The vision emphasizes the urgent need for policies that unlock and accelerate ...