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2022-10-24 Economy

Biden's Next Crisis: Home Heating Oil Rationing Begins in Northeast, and It's Not Even Winter Yet

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Posted by DarthVader 2022-10-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top

#1 Whale blubber is an alternative. Maybe that is what Fetterman’s growth is all about.

Posted by Super Hose 2022-10-24 11:23|| 2022-10-24 11:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Just set your thermostat down to 50. It's good for climate change! /sarc

I had a day of 40 degrees inside my house in the big freeze in mid-February, 2021. Of course, my natural gas fireplace was working.

Posted by Bobby 2022-10-24 11:25|| 2022-10-24 11:25|| Front Page Top

#3 During a three day power outage in PeeAye dead of winter, I kept my house at 55 degrees with a fireplace with heat-o-lator.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-10-24 11:32|| 2022-10-24 11:32|| Front Page Top

#4 All those NIMBYs in the Northeast have done everything possible to prevent available domestic natural gas from being available in their region. This goes back many years. They now richly deserve any resulting fuel shortfall.

Posted by Gromble Dribble4342 2022-10-24 16:00|| 2022-10-24 16:00|| Front Page Top

#5 So the NorthEast should consider that when they go to vote for the AOC's of their party. We are the land of plenty, we have more oil and gas than most of the World. Yet the Dems are driving us to third world options with their attacks on the middle class and the poor. Next we will hear to use electricity, another unaffordable and low quantity resource. This nation is digging its own grave.

Posted by 49 Pan 2022-10-24 16:43|| 2022-10-24 16:43|| Front Page Top

#6 About 5.3 million households in the United States or 5% of the homes in the U.S. used heating oil (distillate fuel oil) as their main space heating fuel, and about 82% of those households were in the U.S. Northeast Census Region.Feb 23, 2022.

Posted by JohnQC 2022-10-24 18:01|| 2022-10-24 18:01|| Front Page Top

#7 When the son goes down, cut your transport animal open with a light saber and climb inside. Note - it will smell bad.

Posted by Super Hose 2022-10-24 20:12|| 2022-10-24 20:12|| Front Page Top

#8 Kill your horse, remove the innards, crawl inside the empty belly while it’s still steaming. Worked for me.

Posted by Hugh Glass the Revenant 2022-10-24 20:21|| 2022-10-24 20:21|| Front Page Top

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