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January 23, 2012

A Winter of Oil Price Discontent

Cardwell & Krauss, New York Times


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When David Harris built his 2,000-square-foot hilltop home nine years ago, he wanted to put in natural gas, but the utility wouldn’t run a line to his house. Like many people here, he was stuck using heating oil.

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