What is the average cost of heating oil for home owners right now?
What is the average cost of heating oil for commercial users right now?
What is the percentage increase for the price of heating oil for home
owners this year?
What is the percentage increase for the price of heating oil for
commercial users this year?

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 14 Oct 2004 16:00 PDT

Do you have any particular nation in mind?

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Clarification of Question by sutay-ga on 14 Oct 2004 16:06 PDT

Heating oil prices for the United States

Here are the latest numbers from the Energy Information
Administration. They release weekly updated residential and wholesale
(commercial) prices as well as comparing it to the previous years.

As of October 11th:
Residential Now - $1.899
Residental -1 Year - $1.373
% Increase - %38.310

Wholesale Now - $1.500
Wholesale -1 Year - $0.902
% Increase - %66.297

Weekly updated residential prices:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/weekly_petroleum_status_report/current/pdf/tablec1.pdf

Weekly updated wholesale prices:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/weekly_petroleum_status_report/current/pdf/tablec2.pdf

Nice weekly updated graph as well as numbers in a table:
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/oog/info/hopu/hopu.asp

More information as well as past years' data:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/info_glance/distillate.html


Thank you for your question, and it was a pleasure to answer it for you.

skermit-ga

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Request for Answer Clarification by sutay-ga on 14 Oct 2004 19:06 PDT

Hi and thanks so much for your fast response... one question... is the
line that states "Residential - 1 year - $1.373" and "Wholesale -1
Year - $0.902" mean this is what the prices were a year ago?

Thank you again.

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Clarification of Answer by skermit-ga on 14 Oct 2004 19:22 PDT

Yeah, sorry about the confusion. Those are the prices a year ago.

skermit-ga

Excellent answer and very quick!!