Summer 2022 Newsletter
Summer 2022 Heating & Cooling Headlines (click image for full version):
Three Kinds of Heating Oil Companies
After you have been in the same business in the same area for over twenty years, you should be able to figure out just what is going on. While it seems as if a new company pops up selling heating oil just about every few months, all providers of retail home heating oil fall into…
Ken’s Oil and Heating
As most of you may already know, Ken’s Oil and Heating of Millbury, MA has teamed up with another company serving Worcester county this past winter. In the fall of 2018, Ken Andrews was faced with a tough decision. His small, local company was expanding rapidly, however he didn’t have the oil burner technicians, fuel…
FDR and Something to Remember
To most people, the acronym FDR stands for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 34th President of the United States, who worked brilliantly with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in an effort to save democracy and win World War II. At Jamie Oil, FDR means something entirely different. To us FDR stands for the three most important…
Metrowest Merges with JOC
After almost three years of providing evening and weekend emergency service for Metrowest clients, all operations of Metrowest Fuel Service was merged into Jamie Oil. Keith Proia, a Framingham native, who was the owner of Metrowest, will stay on at Jamie Oil as Jamie’s new General Manager. Proia brings almost forty years of heating and…
What is Downside Protection?
Downside protection is an option Jamie Oil offers at an additional cost which ensures that your price per gallon will decrease should oil prices fall after you have locked in. If you choose to purchase downside protection when you sign a contract, and our daily posted price is less than the rate you locked in…
Did You Know?
Replacing an old inefficient boiler with a new cleaner burning oil fired boiler can reduce your fuel consumption by as much as 30%. Heating your domestic hot water (showers, etc.) with oil is less expensive and more efficient than electric. Most New England based oil companies evolved from the local “Ice and Coal” companies that…
Jamie Oil Beats Mayhem
We have all seen the television ads for the insurance company where the character called “Mayhem”, dressed in a black suit, white shirt and black tie, flies off of the back of a pickup truck or falls thirty feet causing extensive injury to himself, others and damage to their property. This past winter, Mayhem hit…
The Tale of Lester Greene
By Tom Carey The year was 1982, my first in the oil business. I was working for Hess Oil at the time, supplying fuel oil to large industrial institutions in Connecticut. Among our larger customers were General Electric, Dow Chemical and Yale University. In the fall of ’82 I met a man named Lester Green.…
And then it snowed….
In the heating oil business, January 21st marks the mid point of our season. At that point this past winter, we were having a slightly warmer than normal heating season and everybody was talking about the Super Bowl bound New England Patriots. Nobody was talking about the weather. Then everything changed. In late January it…