It's the 29th and a beautiful NH Fall day. But so far, October has been pretty scary for our Rack Plus program. Our prices have been not much less than market price, and occasionally higher than market price for the last two weeks of this month. The reason is that Rack Plus is tough when prices are rising While others are posting last weeks (lower) price), we're posting today's latest and greatest (and higher) price.
It works MUCH better on the way down. We're still waiting for that speculator bubble to break. It broke about this time last year and we hope it breaks soon. If and when that happens we'll save lots of money.
Meanwhile those of you who took advantage of our early prebuys with all dealers except Irving who didn't want to do an early pre-buy this year, are enjoying $1.98, $1.99 and $2.11 a gallon, though you had to put the money upfront. Oddly enough, we couldn't get people to take the pre-buys until prices rose and it it was too late to purchase more. We think that the depressed economy discouraged many from making large upfront investments.
We WILL be doing early pre-buys again next February. We think that Irving will also participate in an early pre-buy this time around and will let you know when that has been agreed upon.
On a different note, we have converted space in our barn to offices and will be moving in the weekend of November 7th. In all likelihood we will be closed for a day or so. However, we'll have a lot more space and by November 20th a new phone system to replace our antique one with twice as many lines. This should make it much easier for members to contact us.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Friday, October 9, 2009
October 9, 2009 Update - Irving oil contracts mailed
The Irving oil contracts finally went out yesterday night, Oct. 8th. We apologize for the delay. Negotiations with Irving took much longer than expected. And though we gave the list to Irving on September 14th, it takes a while for Irving to check the list and accomplish the direct mailing.
The letter included from Our Town Energy Alliance does include an error. In our literature, we have defined the heating season covered this year as Oct. 1 2009 through May 31, 2010. Inadvertently, the dates included in the letter are last years dates. Please ignore them.
If you have a delivery between October 1st and when we receive your contract, you will be credited back the rack plus price once we forward the contract to Irving.
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