Discount heating oil for MA

Wednesday, 6:30 pm

By Kate

Nov

23

2005

Massachusetts state legislators inked a deal with Venezuelan officials yesterday to provide low income residents with more than 12 million gallons of low cost heating oil this season. The oil will be provided by CITGO and administrated by Citizen’s Energy and Massachusetts Energy Consumer Alliance. Other big oil companies were asked to participate in the program, but none would agree. Must be their profits were a little tight this past quarter....

The discounted oil will be available beginning Dec. 12 to any of the more than 40,000 Massachusetts households receiving federal fuel oil assistance. Families who have used up their $550 annual federal subsidy will get a letter from Citizens Energy informing them of the new program.

Yay, Hugo!

(And let it be said that Mitt Romney thinks this is fantastic, too.)