This week, a gallon of home heating oil in Massachusetts sold on average for $5.71 a gallon. Last year at this time, it was $3.30 a gallon – that’s a 73% increase
“It’s a very, very high bill.”
Shirlee Thurston’s latest heating oil bill is a frightening prospect only weeks before Halloween and the arrival of the winter months.
“Close to like $550, $560 on top of everything, yeah,” she explained.
Oil prices are on the rise. This week, a gallon of home heating oil in Massachusetts sold on average for $5.71 a gallon. Last year at this time, it was $3.30 a gallon – that’s a 73% increase.
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Massachusetts is getting $37 million from Washington for home heating assistance programs like the one administered by Action for Boston Community Development. Sharon Scott-Chandler is ABCD’s CEO.
“We are very concerned that people will not be able to heat their homes. That they won’t be able to get oil deliveries,” she said.
