Our furnace burns fuel oil. For those of you not familiar with it, it's the same stuff that trucks burn. It's dyed a different color and taxed differently but it's the same stuff.

I *ALWAYS* top off my tank in May or June so I start the winter with a full tank. Usually the price is less because no one's heating their house.

I paid $5.899 per gallon and I was happy to get it.

According to our local paper, several of the smaller fuel oil firms in our area are REFUSING to fill tanks over the summer, even for longtime customers. They want to keep their stock for the winter.

Some of them are refusing to accept new customers.

If you heat your house with something that has to be delivered like fuel oil, coal, wood pellets, or the like and it can be stored, do it now.
You don't know what this winter will be like.

I've already informed the family that I'm setting the thermostat lower: from 64 degrees during the day to 63. I might have to go lower, depending on the price I see.

By the way, although home heating oil and diesel fuel at the gas station are not the same price, they do tend to move together. When you see the gas pump price rise, assume your home heating oil prices are rising too.