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Monthly Archives: February 2012
High Oil Prices Will Change Our Lives
With so much talk (scare tactics or fact-based) about the sustained price of oil (and gas, and heating oil, and distillates), it is very important as consumers to really understand the implications of sustained high oil prices. As discussed in … Continue reading
Everything You Wanted to Know About Oil Prices But Were Afraid to Ask
Why oil (and therefore gas and heating oil) prices are the way they are is not a simple explanation. Luckily, if you would like to hear a very good overall description of oil prices this weekend there was such a … Continue reading
Posted in Allen's Oil, Grady Mechanical, Heating Oil, Heating Oil Prices, Politics
Tagged allen's oil, connecticut heating oil, CT, CT heating oil, Dodd-Frank, end users, global economy, grady mech, grady mechanical, heating oil, heating oil oil prices, hedging, home heating oil, iran, Iraq, oil futures, speculators, Volker Rule
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Fill It Up For Less: Find the Best Pump Price
If you’re sick of paying high prices at the gas pump, don’t feel alone. The mere mention of gas hitting $5 a gallon is like a roundhouse kick to the face and, even worse – the wallet. We know we’re … Continue reading
Posted in Allen's Oil, Grady Mechanical, Oil Prices
Tagged allen's oil, grady mech, grady mechanical, heating oil oil prices
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Gas Prices the Highest Ever for This Time of Year
Our friends at the Associated Press are reporting that the gas prices we’re all confronted with at the pumps and in our oil tanks are the highest ever for this time of year. Read on… NEW YORK (AP) — Gasoline prices … Continue reading
America’s Last Chance for Oil Independence
What are your thoughts about our country’s dependence on foreign oil? A commentary by the folks at Canada Free Press posed that very same question in a long-winded & somewhat one-sided (if not well-intended) Saturday publication. Their gist was simple: … Continue reading
Posted in Allen's Oil, Grady Mechanical, Heating Oil, Heating Oil Prices, Oil Prices, Politics
Tagged allen's oil, CT heating oil, grady mechanical, NYMEX
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How Much Money Do WE Make When the Price of Oil Increases?
The latest & greatest installment of our “Ask A Contractor” series has been released – Providing YOU, the consumer, with helpful advice & the answers to all your Heating, A/C & Oil questions! Q: You Must Make a Lot of … Continue reading
Here’s Why We LOVE Name-Dropping!
We here at Grady Mechanical love to do business with loyal customers – And, to show our appreciation to our dedicated clientele, Grady Mechanical is rewarding every customer with a $10 VISA Gift Card for every referral they send our … Continue reading
F&S Oil Company Auditor Pleads Guilty to Bank Fraud
From our friends at LoanSafe.org: (Source: FBI) – The United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut announced that DALE K. CICCARELLI, 57, of Southbury, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before Senior United States District Judge … Continue reading
Posted in Heating Oil, Personal, Politics
Tagged connecticut heating oil, CT heating oil, scam
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Storm Preparation: Keeping the Power On
From the Hartford Business Journal: The attitude toward Connecticut electricity has shifted. For the past several years, all the discussion focused on lower prices and renewable energy. The two widespread power outages in 2011 changed those talks to utility performance … Continue reading
34 Years Ago Today – The Blizzard of ’78
Without a question the Blizzard of ’78 was the biggest snowstorm of the second half of the 20th century in Connecticut. Old timers may argue that the February 1934 blizzard was worse. The storm that began before daybreak on February … Continue reading
Posted in Allen's Oil, Grady Mechanical, Weather
Tagged allen's oil, connecticut, grady mechanical
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