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Did you know that in addition to delivering discount heating oil, Pay Less For Oil also offers HVAC services? Pay Less For Oil is a subsidiary of Fuel Services, Western Massachusetts’ and Northern Connecticut’s leading full-service home comfort provider. As a Pay Less For Oil customer, you have access to an experienced team of technicians […]

Winter is not what it used to be, and the numbers bear that out. In the energy business, companies actually measure the amount of cold weather that each year brings using the “heating degree days” metric, and degree day counts are trending lower as the intensity and consistency of winter cold decline. Heating Degree Days […]

Many of today’s boilers and furnaces are touted as being “high-efficiency” units. In this post we’ll explore what that means. The efficiency of your home heating equipment is measured by a term called “annual fuel utilization efficiency,” or AFUE. Simply put, AFUE (pronounced “a-few”) is a measure of how efficient an appliance is in converting […]

Technology reduces home heating costs. Most everyone who pays to heat a home or business shares a similar goal: to reduce the cost of heating. There are several ways to bring down the cost, such as buying less expensive fuel and improving the building’s outer shell to prevent heat loss. The single most cost-effective strategy, […]

UPDATE: As of 08/02/2016, this bill did not make it to a floor vote.  In Massachusetts, a comprehensive energy bill, S. 2372, and Amendment 48 would introduce a carbon tax without giving public testimony and feedback. A carbon tax is a fee intended to make users of fossil fuels pay for climate damage their fuel […]