The Think Tank

hello,

been absent for a while, but I have been checking.

Today, July 3 the prices of heating oil are as follows:

Best Oil is                                                  3.37 for 400 gatraons

First Call/Discount/Larsen Oil is       3.50 for 400 gallson

Deluxe Oil is                                             3.50 for 400 gallons

the above prices are for cash/check.  Everyone seems to be adding .10 cents per gallon for debit / credit

That seems to be the newest gambit of the big bank/ big corporation assault on the average person.  FIRST : the banks begin with credit cards.  Cheap, easy way to afford what you want before you can REALLY afford it.  Once everyone is hooked on that idea, the interest prices begin jumping  higher and higher.  Now they are usurius because the big banking lobby convinced Congress to allow them to charge whatever interest rates they want.  THEN they come up with the DEBIT card.  This is BETTER THAN CASH, better than checks, better than travelers checks because they cannot be stolen.  OH REALLY ?  The push was on, with some places like Costco gas stations not even taking cash.  THEN this little idea.  IF you do not use cash or checks , and insist on using the newfangled beall and endall credit or debit card (the invention of the big banks/big corporation) it will cost you dearly.  Wow.

Well, today is a mixed bag.  Best Oil heating oil price dropped .  Larsen/Discount/first Call McCall has gone up.

the stock market close on Crude Oil and Heating oil closed up from my last post which sadly was a week ago.  I will try to do better.  🙂

A mixed bag today,  some up some down.  Heating oil at my favorite, is down.  For those who are interested gasoline also dropped a smidge today.  I bet it does not drop at the pump.

Hope oil prices continue to trend down.

well, today was a better day for the oil prices.  Down across the board.  Unfortunately the reason , I think, is because there was a report today by leading economists who said of people who have been unemployed for more than 6 months, only 11% will find full time employment.  That does not sound very good.  AND they further stated that the reason the unemployment numbers look better is because many of the long time unemployed have reached retirement age, or simply quit looking.  Sad but true I fear.

i do hope the price for heating oil and gasoline continues to fall as that will be good for all of us folks who actually work for a living and have to pay for things as opposed to those who run the oil companies, destroy economies with greed and pillage the pockets of the average citizen.

So it has been a while since I posted.  The market has been up and down quite a bit.  Hopefully the prices will continue to show a downward trend price wise.  That is what I always hope and it is very seldom the case.

I really will try to post several times weekly, so check back.