If you think oil prices are hitting hard now --- Winter's coming [View All]

[Armstead]

We all gripe about high gas prices.

What happens this winter when heating fuel costs reflects this? As bad as gas costs are, at least that is a somewhat discretionary purchase. But when it comes to heat, people in the colder states are literally over a barrel.

I heard of at least one local oil company that plans to not take advance payment contracts for heating oil this winter. They are afraid of getting burned by having people locked into lower prices, if their own cost of buying oil keep going up.

This could be a sleeper issue. Frozen voters are not happy voters.