The price of home heating oil in Northern Ireland has hit an all time high.
Third, the President authorized the Secretary of Energy to tap the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve.
That, coupled with an unusually mild winter, has kept bills for home heating unusually low.
Second, we need to immediately address the impending home heating crisis that could affect so many families this year.
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Most recycled cooking oil today is used to power diesel trucks or mixed with home heating fuel, a simpler conversion process.
He also wants the Energy Department to release the 2 million barrel petroleum stockpile in the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve.
Ms Hearty said that even after this increase, oil home heating would still be at least 10% more expensive than gas.
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Washington also released 2 million barrels a day of diesel from the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve, bound for New York and New Jersey.
However, a big subsidy program aimed at helping poor families pay for home heating costs was slashed for the second year in a row.
When my family goes on a ski trip to Tahoe, my wife and I disagree about whether to turn our home heating on or off.
One is, could you explain exactly this home heating oil reserve?
If the inventory slides too close to 500 billion feet, industrial users would be ordered to curtail use in order to safeguard supplies for home heating.
"Regulation of the home heating oil industry could provide consumers with transparency and reassurance that the price they are being asked to pay is fair, " he said.
As well as funding the cost of home care where appropriate, he said other help was available for the elderly, including home heating and free bus fares.
There has been widespread concern about the rise of fuel poverty in the UK, which is defined as those spending more than 10% of income on home heating.
For example, more than a dozen states use federal food stamp subsidies to give a dollar home heating credit for people who do not have a utility bill.
Those assets include home heating oil and a television station.
During President Jimmy Carter's term, Tulis recalls, natural gas prices were inflated because the Administration predicted severe shortages and even mandated that gas be restricted to home heating and cooking.
And deeper into the paper you find that they mean LEDs reducing electricity consumption for lighting, more efficient home heating, more insulation, better cars (perhaps electric) and so on.
About a third of new gas furnaces being sold today run at 90% efficiency, which still saves a typical homeowner 11% on home heating bills compared to an 80% efficient unit.
When gas first began to be used a lot in the 1960s it was a substitute for home heating oil, and so it made sense to tie its price to that of oil.
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Finished energy goods registered their fifth consecutive month of gains, up 3.3% on rising prices for gasoline, home heating oil, and residential electric power. (Read Why World Food Prices Will Keep Climbing).
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Energy prices have risen 7% on average this year, according to the Fuel Poverty Advisory Group, and are set to leave more households paying more than 10% of their income on home heating unless the government takes action.
WASHINGTON, July 21 (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers on Friday urged major oil companies to raise production of home heating oil as soon as possible to avoid supply shortages in the Northeast this autumn and winter.
On the LIHEAP program, the home heating assistance program, we doubled the home heating assistance program when I first came into office, in part because there was a huge energy spike, and so folks -- if we had just kept it at the same level, folks would have been in real trouble.
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But there is good reason to think that the market has not yet peaked: the northern hemisphere's winter is only now approaching, heating oil stocks are at extremely low levels on both sides of the Atlantic, and the price of natural gas (oil's chief rival for home heating) has lately gone through the roof.
Although electricity bills would fall, the price of gas (the most popular home-heating fuel) would rise.
This week Bill Clinton vowed to create a home-heating-oil reserve for the north-eastern states.
None of these factors bode well for consumers' confidence as they struggle with common living expenses, such as higher home-heating fuel and gasoline costs.
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