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[ This is a reminder to those of you who use fuel oil to fill up now, and a
recommendation for a supplier, if you don't already have one. ]

A couple years ago (winter '89) I had inadvertantly run out of fuel oil in
the house I had just recently purchased.  I'd always had natural gas
before...  Unfortunately, none of the fuel oil companies were taking new
clients because they were swamped taking care of existing customers.  (You
might remember the winter of '89 was REAL COLD.)  Fairfax county had a
program where they arranged to have fuel oil delivered to me via one of
their contractors to alleviate my stupidity.  I seem to recall that I paid
something like $1.60 / gallon, which I believe was not unreasonable at the
time.  (There were stories of people having to pay $3.00 / gallon at that
time in New England.)

Learning from my mistakes, I called the company who had delivered the oil
before, Click Fuel (273-1111, in Fairfax City) today to request a delivery.
They can deliver within one day's notice and prices are currently $0.95 /
gallon.  I'm going to fill it up!  It may not be the best price around (I
didn't bother shopping), but I think it's reasonable, and I want to support
them for the service I got three years ago.  The guy who delivered fuel oil
that day said that he had been working twelve to fourteen hours a day making
deliveries, and this was a weekend also (Saturday, Dec.  23rd).

-- Karl --
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Karl A. Nyberg				karl@grebyn.com
Post Office Box 497			Grebyn Corporation
Vienna, VA 22183-0497 USA		+1-703-281-2194