Kerosene Prepay Dilemma

What's worse than $5.079 per gallon for kerosene 2008-2009 prepay price?

Calling back to order prepay for the season and being told they sold it all so you can't buy prepay.

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Sounds like a bad joke, but it's no joke. Only bad. It's the second time in a month I've felt sick to my stomach at news--the first time over the initial prepay fuel price I so wanted to refuse to pay but couldn't out of no alternative.

The company said they sold in three days what they normally sell in five weeks for kerosene. Good for them? Not really. They say they're making the same profit they did last year when prices were $2+ per gallon less. You know where the money is really going.

I even asked about their requirements for enclosing a tank to buy oil at $4.67, which is sounding pretty good right now, but they require the tank be in a heated enclosure, not just an insulated box. Now I'm not sure what we'll do.

The good news right now is that it looks like the weatherization we did last year reduced the amount of kerosene we used so we need less. (And that reminds me, I never posted the weatherization pictures. That, I'll have to do.)

So for now, we're on the waiting list. If the fuel company buys more kerosene, they may let us buy prepay. If not, it's right back to where we always were: trusting God.

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