"With today's low heating oil supplies, prices are bound to rise significantly, placing greater pressure on our most vulnerable consumers, " the lawmakers said.
It has been claimed that a scheme that could provide low cost heating for homes in County Antrim is in doubt because of government policy.
Most of the health care funding would be contained in the Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill, which funds a lot of the programs that get the most use, like public schools, low-income heating assistance, unemployment insurance, job training, and public broadcasting, so it would be a very high-stakes game.
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The members of Congress said while national attention has focused on high prices and low supplies of gasoline, heating oil stocks have fallen to "dangerously" low levels, down 63 percent on the East Coast from a year ago.
U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson said on Thursday he was concerned that heating oil stocks are too low and there is the potential for heating fuel shortages this winter.
That, coupled with an unusually mild winter, has kept bills for home heating unusually low.
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Many of us have seen the CITGO, the Venezuelan-owned oil company TV commercials running across the United States, which promote discounted heating oil to low-income people.
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The Senate bill would also extend unemployment insurance, and senators are expected to try to add more proposals, including an increase in food stamps, heating assistance for low-income Americans and more spending on infrastructure projects.
Private-sector inventories of distillates like heating oil are unusually low as winter nears.
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You can find out more about their recommendations on my blog at www.moneysucks.net but simple steps you can take include making sure that your pipes are well lagged and that you keep your heating on at a low level while you are away.
Tom Delare, economic counselor at the U.S. Embassy, says the massive subsidies that keep gas and heating oil at artificially low prices in Iraq also create a huge incentive for smugglers who simply take Iraqi gasoline or kerosene out of the country, bring it right back in, and sell it at much higher import prices.
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.
Low gas prices have meant that the cost of heating schools and other government buildings, often itemised on local tax bills, is falling.
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It also claims to get a low 12 miles to gallon thanks to energy efficient engines and interior-heating systems.
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Recent industrial action by lorry drivers meant petrol stations ran dry, supermarkets ran low on stock, and even hospitals had to make alternative arrangements for deliveries of heating coal.
If this technology is adopted when wind prices are low or even potentially negative, it can supplant the need for fossil fuel-based heating.
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In low external temperatures, the battery is quickly brought up to operating temperature with the aid of an electric heating element.
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