Northeast US Rationing Heating Oil as Winter ApproachesThe Northeastern United States is so short on heating oil that the fuel is being rationed in some areas, local officials said.
Chris Herb, president of the Connecticut Energy Marketers Association, told the Boston Herald and Bloomberg News that some heating oil wholesalers in Connecticut are saying that retailers have been placed on allocation, which means they can only get a limited amount of fuel due to low availability.
Retailers then have to ration the fuel to their customers, Herb said. The Epoch Times has contacted the Connecticut Energy Marketers Association for comment.
"There's just no incentive to store large amount of product," said Michael Ferrante, president of the Massachusetts Energy Marketers Association, according to Bloomberg. Sam Livieri, vice president of New Haven-based Apple Oil, told the outlet that “we are praying, and I mean it, for a warm winter.”...
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