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State Senate to debate oil bill
By AARON SANBORN
asanborn@seacoastonline.com
March 29, 2011 2:00 AM
CONCORD — The Senate version of a bill that aims to regulate guaranteed price plans and prepaid contracts for heating oil, kerosene and natural gas is scheduled to hit the Senate floor on Wednesday.
Senate Bill 197 passed the Senate's Commerce Committee last week and will now be debated on the floor.
The bill establishes a provision where companies offering prepaid contracts for heating fuel reserve funds equivalent to 75 percent of the total amount of prepaid balances in an escrow account with the New Hampshire attorney general's office named as beneficiary.
Officials at the AG's office say the provision allows for consumers to be reimbursed if something goes wrong with the oil company.
The same bill was initially introduced in the House as House Bill 581 by state Rep. Lee Quandt, R-Exeter, but it stalled in the House when it was retained by Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee because of concerns over a no reporting requirement to show oil companies are complying with the new law.
Quandt worked on the bill with Assistant Attorney General James Bofetti in response to the Flynn's Oil case, in which the company went bankrupt in December 2009 and left more than 300 customers of the Exeter-based company without the $554,603 worth of oil they purchased at the start of the winter season.
Soon after the bill stalled in the House, Sen. Molly Kelly, D-Keene, approached Bofetti about proposing the bill in the Senate in response to the unexpected closure of Keene oil company Jackson Energy earlier this month.
"This bill is a positive move for both consumers and businesses," Kelly said. "We will provide greater protections for consumers that enter into prepaid contracts and allow the industry to maintain its reputation after a few recent and unfortunate calamities"
If the bill passes the Senate this week, Kelly said she'd work with the House to clear up any concerns about it.
"This is a serious problem that needs to be addressed in a timely manner in order to protect both consumers and fuel distributors and prevent further losses to both parties," Kelly said.
Quandt said getting the bill through Senate would be a positive development but admits that he's still expecting a fight from the House.
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Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve Multimedia Information
On July 10, 2000, President of the United States Bill Clinton directed Energy Secretary Bill Richardson to establish a 2-million-barrel home heating oil component of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in the Northeast. The intent was to create a buffer large enough to allow commercial companies to compensate for interruptions in supply or severe winter weather, but not so large as to dissuade suppliers from responding to increasing prices as a sign that more supply is needed.
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Morning Heating Oil Market Report for 3/29/2011
May heating oil prices traded lower during the initial morning hours and reached their lowest levels since March 18th. However, some traders noted that there were a number of positive demand factors facing the distillate market, including weather forecasts that call for cooler temperatures across the northern US and increased diesel demand ahead of the spring planting season. The National Weather Service expected heat-related demand for heating oil to run about 18.8% above normal in the coming week.
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Oil Climbs to 30-Month High on Demand Outlook After U.S. Jobs
Oil climbed for a third day in New York as signs of a strengthening U.S. economy boosted bets fuel demand will rise in the world’s largest crude user.
Futures advanced as much as 0.7 percent to a 30-month high after an April 1 report showed the U.S. added more jobs than economists forecast last month. Prices advanced 2.4 percent last week as fighting in Libya threatened to prolong supply cuts in Africa’s third largest producer.
“The U.S. data paints a positive picture,” Jonathan Barratt, managing director of Commodity Broking Services Pty in Sydney, said by telephone today. “People are still concerned about Libya, but not overly. If Qaddafi decides to call it a day, then there will be a short, sharp sell-off.”
Crude for May delivery gained as much as 80 cents to $108.74 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange, the highest since Sept. 24, 2008, and was at $108.52 at 3:13 p.m. Singapore time. Prices are up 25 percent from a year ago.
Payrolls advanced by 216,000 workers in March compared with a 190,000 gain projected by economists in a Bloomberg News survey. The jobless rate dropped to 8.8 percent from 8.9 percent, the fourth straight decrease, the Labor Department said. The unemployment rate was projected to hold at 8.9 percent, according to the median forecast in the survey.
Brent Premium
Brent oil for May settlement rose 59 cents, or 0.5 percent, to $119.29 a barrel, on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange. The contract climbed $3.11, or 2.7 percent last week.
The European benchmark traded at a premium of $10.73 a barrel over U.S.-traded West Texas Intermediate futures. The difference between front-month contracts in London and New York surged to a record $19.54 on Feb. 21 as unrest spread in the Middle East and North Africa and stockpiles climbed at Cushing, Oklahoma, the delivery point for WTI. The gap averaged 76 cents last year.
Oil in New York has climbed 28 percent since anti- government protests began Feb. 15 in Libya, cutting output there by two-thirds. The conflict is the bloodiest in uprisings that have toppled the presidents of Tunisia and Egypt and spread to Bahrain, Iran, Yemen and Oman.
An emissary of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi met with Greece’s prime minister yesterday and may be seeking a political or diplomatic solution to hostilities, according to Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas.
“Upcoming elections in Nigeria amid the intensified unrest” in the Middle East and North Africa region may add to concern over oil supplies, Mark Pervan, head of commodity research at Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. in Melbourne, said in an e-mailed note.
Nigeria Elections
Nigeria, Africa’s top oil producer, will hold general elections a week later than planned, the electoral commission said, after a vote to elect lawmakers ended in chaos on April 2.
Parliamentary elections, which had been rescheduled to start today, will take place on April 9, while the presidential vote is set for April 16, Attahiru Jega, head of the Independent National Electoral Commission, said yesterday.
Nigeria pumped 1.92 million barrels a day in March, according to estimates compiled by Bloomberg News. Saudi Arabia, the largest producer in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, pumped 9 million barrels a day.
Hedge funds more than doubled bullish bets on natural gas as the U.S. economy strengthened and Japan struggled to contain its nuclear crisis, raising speculation that the nation’s demand for the fuel will rise.
Funds and other large speculators increased net-long positions, or wagers on rising prices, by 42,060 futures equivalents to 76,985 in the seven days ended March 29, according to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s weekly Commitments of Traders report.
In other markets, bullish, or long, bets on gasoline prices rose 5.6 percent to 61,367 futures and options combined, the CFTC data showed. Net-long bets on heating oil increased by 5.5 percent to 37,625.
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Monday, February 7, 2011
Ways to Save on Heating Your Home
As if enduring the various the snow weren’t enough, you’re probably paying more to heat your home this winter.
A gallon of home heating oil costs an average of $3.66; that’s a 24 percent increase from this time last year when home heating oil was $2.95 a gallon
One way to potentially lower the cost of home heating oil is to join a fuel co-operative. Co-ops use the strength of membership to negotiate better prices with fuel suppliers and distributors. Here are a few New York State based co-ops to check out.
Whether you use home heating oil, natural gas, or electricity to heat your home, you can use the web to get information on rebates, subsidies, grants and other ways to lower your energy bills. Websites also offers information on green energy alternatives.
Cost-saving tips on websites include:
* How to get a free or reduced-cost home energy audit
* Find out about the Weatherization Assistance Program
* Find out about the ENERGY STAR program which provides subsidies for qualifying families and businesses to make energy-efficient upgrades in homes or offices.
The Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) helps low-income individuals and families pay their utility bills. HEAP will pay partial benefits directly to the utility company for those who qualify.
Riots in Egypt and cold weather in New England may not seem like they have much in common.
The recent turmoil in the Middle East makes it more apparent than ever the region must move quickly to break its addiction to home heating oil.
New England, is more dependent on oil for heat than any other region and any big disruption in the global supply chain will translate to big bucks for its families.
Energy planners, have been sounding the alarm and lamenting the annual export of $3 billion to $5 billion a year from the state's economy that's spent on fossil fuels, including heating oil, gasoline and diesel.
New Englanders button up their homes as technology improves the efficiency of furnaces and motors improve , but the price of oil and gas — driven largely by a burgeoning global demand — isn't going to go down soon, if ever.
Steep climbs in costs, not incomes
Over the past dozen years, the per-gallon cost of heating oil has jumped by more than 300 percent, and the cost of gasoline, one of the primary fuels for transportation, has gone up more than 200 percent.
The burden of the regions fossil-fuel dependence affects impoverished and low-income families the most.
Without a vibrant plan to diversify our energy sources, including solar and wind power we are in trouble.
. The Energy Information Agency, an arm of the U.S. Department of Energy, is projecting crude oil prices will reach more than $100 a barrel within the next five to 10 years. And with that, the price of refined petroleum products like home heating oil will go higher.
But even with conservation and efficiency measures, growing demand from places like China and India will push petroleum prices upward.
For example, a natural disaster or political unrest in an oil-producing country or a country critical to the global oil supply could have a big impact on our energy prices, especially at the height of the heating season.
After the current crisis developed in Egypt, a country that moves about 3 million barrels a day through its Suez Canal, the per-barrel price of oil jumped by $6 in three days.
That price shift wasn't triggered by an actual supply disruption, but more by general market concerns over instability in the Middle East. It illustrates the direct connection we have to unstable governments far away.
Other energy experts, including those in the oil industry, say that while they recognize the regions current dependence on oil can be a problem, they do not expect any sudden or apocalyptic scenarios for the state.
The market will determine prices and that is one reason many have started to broker in different kinds of heating fuels, including pellets and propane.
Price will certainly push people to other fuels or to be more efficient.
Growing global demand alone will push fuel oil and gasoline to $5 per gallon within the next decade, Kerry predicted, and for each $1 jump in the per-gallon price of oil, add $1 billion per year to the amount of money being exported from our economy.
Meanwhile, developments on the world stage will continue to directly affect how much we pay for heat and transportation.
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The cost of energy and its effect on families
Demand for petroleum-based energy is increasing world-wide. Based on their support for and repeated approval of subsidies, a majority in Congress would have us believe that we don't have to find and burn far more of our own oil and coal or build nuclear plants.
Americans are paying too much for the energy needed to run factories and offices, for motor fuel, and for home heating oil. One of the most pressing problems for businesses, individuals and families is the cost of energy.
Compounding the problem of increasing world demand are the unrest and uncertainty in the Middle East and a hostile Venezuelan government. America and the world are approaching a perfect energy storm. The price of Brent Crude recently passed $100 per barrel for the first time in two years. Continual increases in world demand for energy alone guarantees that alternatives will remain a minor part of energy supplies for very long time.
What Congress doesn't grasp is the true relative practicality of available sources. The alternate and new sources of energy that politicians favor are too costly, too inefficient or too far in the future to have a meaningful impact on today's requirements.
Aside from taxes on petroleum products and despite OPEC's schemes, petroleum prices are largely demand driven. The United States Congress is solely responsible for America's energy crisis and the high costs of fuel. While restricting access to American sources of petroleum for years, Congress has been throwing billions of American tax dollars at alternatives to petroleum. Following decades of "investment," alternatives still supply less than 4% of our energy needs. Congress subsidizes corn ethanol despite the market shortcomings and environmental issues with ethanol. Not only do ethanol and other subsidized alternatives have uncertain futures, they have limited impact on our fuel needs. In fact, alternatives haven't even been useful for frightening world petroleum producers into increasing production and lowering prices in the short term. Even Al Gore doesn't like corn ethanol any longer. Those trucks will significantly add to the demand for refined fuel simply in order to deliver the raw materials needed to refine a fuel inferior to petroleum. And converting and refining biomass will consume even more energy. Due to its water content, ethanol cannot be transported in a pipeline. Once refined, more than 200 million gallons of ethanol would then have to be transported by diesel-fueled tank trucks or rail cars to blending stations every day.
Congress understands that the best way to lower energy costs is to increase the available supply of energy sources.
Biofuel would be created by using bacteria to break down non-food sources of organic material to make cellulosic ethanol. The material sources would include organic waste products like switch grasses, sawdust, agricultural by-products such as corn husks and stalks, leaves, seaweed and landscape waste, among other materials. America has lots of prairie on which to grow grass and plenty of ocean off three continental coasts, plus the waters around Alaska and Hawaii. Advocates of cellulosic ethanol tell us that, by transforming and refining waste, seaweed and grass, renewable biomass can replace crude oil.
Case closed? Not so fast.
Politicians and special interests tell us that a newer, increasingly fashionable ethanol scheme, biomass technology, shows promise. America is biomass rich. Farmers and the lumber industry generate tremendous amounts of cellulose-rich waste. Biomass has some serious problems to overcome. Significantly, it takes nearly one and a half times the volume of cellulosic ethanol to produce the same amount of energy as gasoline.
The Department of Energy reports that it takes a dry ton of biomass to produce as little as eighty, possibly up to one hundred gallons of cellulosic ethanol. America uses more than 400 million gallons of gasoline a day. US and world-wide demand is increasing. There remain serious environmental concerns with the micro-organisms: If a cheap enzyme becomes available, imagine the damage billions of people in the world's population, including some very irresponsible governments, could do to the globe's forests, fields and oceans. Alternate energy special interests need high petroleum prices. They know that, if petroleum prices were to fall, alternate sources of energy would be even less competitive and the subsidies they depend upon far more difficult to justify. If Congress were to stop picking energy winners and losers and, instead, unleash the brains and determination of American entrepreneurs, our energy problems could be solved. An energy sector unhindered by government regulation and political obstacles to nuclear-power, oil exploration and petroleum refining has the best chance to solve our fuel-scarcity problems in the shorter term as well as the environmental concerns that are so often used to prevent development.. Rather than subsidies, establishing incentives for businesses and individuals to develop smart solutions to our energy needs is reasonable - perhaps an energy X Prize. As in any market, we would all benefit if there were a lot of energy providers and products competing with oil.
Given biofuel's energy-content disadvantage, if we wished to produce just half of our current gasoline energy needs, diesel-fueled trucks would have to move 2.5 to 4 million tons of biomass from thousands of sourcing sites over millions of square miles to ethanol plants daily.
The availability of practical energy sources is not only an imperative for a healthy economy, energy availability is a matter of national security and defense.
There are technical challenges as well. There is currently no known cost-effective, mass-producible enzyme capable of breaking down fibrous materials having complex cellulose molecul
es. Scientists and engineers may solve the problem.
The inventor(s) of a fuel that economically matches or outperforms petroleum products will become unimaginably wealthy. If the profit motive can't drive a technology, having the government throw billions of additional dollars at grant-driven researchers and marginally relevant alternatives already living off American taxpayers won't do much for our energy independence.
The reality is that, compared to national fuel demands, alternate fuels are negligible additions to the energy supply. Alternate energy sources are distractions irresponsibly promoted by politicians of both parties to make us think that they're doing something - and to raise campaign funds. Politicians are doing something, but, so far, little of it is useful to or practical for consumers. Generous energy-sector companies and special interests receiving taxpayer-funded subsidies approve of Congress's political solutions and reward members with campaign cash.
One thing is certain: If automobiles could run on hot air, there wouldn't be a gas station within a hundred miles of Washington, DC.
The incentive to find a legitimate alternative to petroleum exists - the profit motive.
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World oil prices recovered in Asian trade Monday
World oil prices recovered in Asian trade Monday, from losses previous week, as temporary ‘ceasefire’ in Egypt failed.
Light sweet crude for March delivery was seen trading at $89.14 a barrel at 12.00 noon Singapore time while Brent crude was at $100.21 a barrel in London.
In other Nymex trading in February contracts, heating oil rose 0.9 cent to $2.73 a gallon and gasoline gained 1.5 cents to $2.45 a gallon. Natural gas futures for March delivery were down 6.8 cents at $4.24 per 1,000 cubic feet.
In Egypt, Opposition groups held talks with the government on Sunday to resolve political crisis but said their core demand for the removal of the president was not met.
Although Egypt is not a major oil producer, it controls the Suez Canal and the Suez-Mediterranean oil pipeline, which together moved over 2 million bpd of crude and oil products in 2009.
Oil was also US Energy Department last week said country’s gasoline stockpiles rose to the highest in almost 18 years as demand decreased.
On Friday, New York’s main futures contract, light sweet crude for March, gained 46 cents to $91.00 per barrel while Brent North Sea crude for delivery in March rose 43 cents to $102.67 per barrel in London trade.
Heating oil customers given weather warnings for snow
Demand for heating oil could increase after weather warnings of heavy snow .
Flash warnings of severe weather conditions have been given for the north-east today (February 7th 2011).
It has predicted that heavy snow will fall in New England
Residents in these areas have been advised to be prepared for the bout of cold weather and snowy showers, which might include topping up their heating oil levels so they can be assured their properties remain warm over the next few days.
During snow or ice officials recommend people to avoid travelling if possible, or check the Highway Code if they must drive.
Wearing several layers of clothing in order to prevent the loss of body heat was also suggested.
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Gasoline Futures Advance on Jobs Report, Business Expansion
Indicating improvements in the economy and better prospects for fuel demand, gasoline advanced after reports showed a drop in jobless claims and growth for U.S. service industries.
Gasoline outperformed crude and heating oil as the Labor Department reported a drop in first-time filings for jobless benefits and continuing claims. Indicating the recovery is broadening service industries in the U.S. expanded in January at the fastest pace since August 2005
Gasoline for March delivery added 0.49 cent to settle at $2.5034 a gallon on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The gasoline crack spread, based on March contracts, widened 52 cents to $14.60 a barrel.
The Institute for Supply Management’s index of non- manufacturing businesses rose to 59.4, exceeding the median forecast in a Bloomberg News survey, after December’s 57.1. Readings above 50 signal expansion in the gauge that covers about 90 percent of the economy. Orders were the highest in seven years, while companies showed more confidence to hire.
Applications for jobless benefits decreased by 42,000 to 415,000 in the week ended Jan. 29. Economists forecast claims would fall to 420,000, according to the median estimate in a Bloomberg News survey.
Heating oil for March delivery sank 1.33 cents, or 0.5 percent, to settle at $2.7674, after touching $2.804, the highest level for the front-month contract since October 2008. The heating oil crack spread, based on March contracts, and narrowed 24 cents to $25.69 a barrel.
Crude oil for March delivery dropped 32 cents to settle at $90.54 a barrel
Regular gasoline at the pump, averaged nationwide, gained 0.8 cent to $3.116 a gallon yesterday
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Heating Oil, Gasoline Advance to 27-Month Highs: Oil Products
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Heating Oil, Gasoline Advance to 27-Month Highs: Oil Products | ||
Heating Oil Surges to 27-Month High on Storm Outlook, Outages | ||
DOE's Short-Term Energy Outlook Sees Diesel at $3.40 Diesel for 2011 | ||
US Increases 2011 Oil Price, World Demand Estimates | ||
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Tacoma firm buys Everett oil dealer | ||
US Oil Outlook: Consumption Higher With Economic Recovery | ||
Heating Oil Prices in Maine Rise Again | ||
More LIHEAP funding coming to Maine, NH | ||
Consumers, government wary of rising fuel costs |
More LIHEAP funding coming to Maine, NH
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More LIHEAP funding coming to Maine, NH |
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
What Makes a High Efficient Furnace So Efficient?
What Makes a High Efficient Furnace So Efficient? by Mike Meincke
With today's rising energy demands, volatile financial & housing markets and a constant potential of increased living costs looming over our shoulders, catching a financial break anywhere we can as a consumer should be of keen interest to everybody. 90%+ Annual Fuel Utilization Efficiency (AFUE) furnaces may easily provide the solution and can easily off set a household bill or two with all of the energy being saved by this furnace in contrast to the conventional 60-80% AFUE furnace that is more than likely currently in your home even as you read this article. 90%+ AFUE furnaces have a 2 heat exchanger design to avoid wasting heat, in the past the product was problematic when it was first developed in the 90's, but has since been improved to near perfection today by most manufacturers to be a very reliable product and if sized properly and installed properly will save an incredible amount of money on the utility bill that you can capitalize on year in and year out.
The two heat exchanger design is the key feature that allows a 90%+ AFUE furnace to operate so efficiently. A primary heat exchanger handles the ignition of the furnace and the natural gas fire (propane, kerosene, heating oil or what ever the furnace burns) of the furnace burners. As the burners are engaged inside of the heat exchanger, the heat exchanger gets hot so that when the furnace blower turns on, forced air travels over the hot heat exchanger to allow for heat transfer to occur, sending warm air through your air ducts and to ultimately heat the air in your home. With a conventional 60-80% AFUE furnace that is all that is present for a heat exchanger, but through brilliant engineering furnace manufacturers realized that flue gases always creates hot moisture that is typically wasted out of the flue pipe and so they decided to capture this free energy by designing a better product. So engineers went to work to produce the two heat exchanger furnace and incorporated a secondary heat exchanger that looks like a coil to capture the hot flue gas moisture to re use this heat in a more efficient appliance, rather than wasting this heat out of the flue pipe.
Remarkably after 70 years of relatively little change in the heating market in terms of how a furnace basically operated, a vastly more efficient appliance emerged on the market. Two stage technology emerged as well, where engineers realized that a furnace did not necessarily have to high fire gas at all times to effectively heat your home, due to varying weather outside of your home. The two stage gas valve emerged to where a low fire predominately occurs on temperate (less cold) winter days saving an additional 25-35% on gas consumption and then when the weather gets real cold outside the furnace can engage a high fire to ensure that the appliance can keep up with heating your home only when high fire is truly needed, to ensure that the homeowner gets the best of both worlds; saving money and staying comfortable.
A conventional furnace is missing these features, because the conventional furnace can only fire in one stage and just wastes flue gas moisture out of the flue pipe. The venting of a 90%+ AFUE furnace is typically done with PVC piping material and most often is vented to the exterior side of a home. The 90%+ AFUE furnace burns and exhausts vastly more cleaner gases than a conventional furnace effectively lowering emissions as well, so you can feel good about doing your part in the environment when you have a 90%+ AFUE furnace installed in your home.
Some contractors are afraid to install a 90%+ AFUE furnace in your home due to lack of training and an inability to successfully repair furnaces in the first place. One legitimate complaint and or criticism that was true in the past, that these contractors would make, is that parts were more expensive on a 90%+ AFUE furnace and why on earth would you want an expensive repair bill they would ask. That all came to an end when Rheem manufacturing designed their new line of 95% AFUE 2 stage furnaces. All parts selected to make the Rheem 95% AFUE 2 stage furnace work are of quality durable design, but cost effective to repair after the furnace warranty expires.
This would not be the case with the expensive Carrier induced draft motors and chip boards or the expensive chip boards used by Trane and American Standard or all parts by Lennox being of higher expense in their product lines of 90%+ AFUE furnaces. Furthermore, Rheem realized that the primary heat exchanger was the most expensive part of the furnace, so they decided to make a primary heat exchanger tougher than any other manufacturers primary heat exchanger.
The Rheem primary heat exchanger is constructed of stainless steel and is of a tubular design with virtually no seam points present on the part, kind of like a car tail pipe, which rarely breaks. Eliminating seam points on the heat exchanger increases the life span of the part. On the contrary, the Lennox, Carrier, Trane and American Standard heat exchangers are a cheaper clam shell design that is no where near as strong as the tubular designed heat exchanger. The clam shell designed heat exchanger is designed to last a certain amount of years, but once enough time goes by these heat exchangers typically fail due to 4 sides of crimped seams separating the heat exchanger, leading to part failure.
Not only is the Rheem 90%+ AFUE line of furnaces tougher and built with cost effective parts in mind, but they even went as far as ensuring that all Rheem furnaces operate at a vastly lower decibal range making the Rheem furnace the quietest class of furnaces in the residential market today. Carrier, Trane, American Standard and Lennox furnaces will work and if sized and installed properly will last for many years, however when they break, you will surly pay a pretty penny to get them fixed.
When you call out an HVAC company or contractor to perform an in home estimate to install your 90%+ AFUE furnace, make sure that they are evaluating your whole house. Proper furnace sizing will involve an estimator to evaluate wall insulation type, attic insulation type, home exposure, window type, slab type, outdoor landscape, fire places present, duct sizing, how many people occupies the space as well as a few other factors too.
Be leery of the estimator that is in and out of your home in 30 minutes or less, because getting it right during the estimate phase will have a huge effect on achieving maximum efficiency of the furnace and your over all indoor comfort for many years to come. Most of the estimates that reputable heating and air conditioning companies perform may require between 1-2 hours to gather all necessary data, answer customer questions and to write an up front price to do the work.
There are many like minded good companies and contractors out there that conduct themselves that way as well. Your best bet would be to just call out an ACCA member company to perform the estimate, because an ACCA member company will operate professionally, follow higher HVAC standards and receives accredited support in training, up to date trade information and will be up to date with new techniques and standards in the HVAC field. and use the contractor zip code locator to find an ACCA member company near you.
Article By: Mike Meincke. Managing Member of Lucky Duct, LLC.
About the Author
Mike Meincke is the Managing Member of Lucky Duct, LLC. Lucky Duct, LLC is a full service licensed heating and air conditioning company that operates in the Denver metro market. Lucky Duct, LLC also provides commercial and residential air duct cleaning services using the most powerful equipment in the industry.
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Pop, Popper Your Popcorn Maker
Pop, Popper Your Popcorn Maker by David H. Urmann
Popcorn maker that is also called popcorn machine is a device used to pop popcorn. It was usually found in movie theaters, amusement parks and carnivals.
During early years there were no popcorn makers, Indians made popcorn by heating sand in a pan and then they put the kernels on the heated sand. Many years later, Charles Creators was the first person to invent the mobile popcorn machine, which is also known as the popcorn maker cart in 1893 in Chicago, Illinois. This machine made it easy for the people to sell the popcorn on the streets and on the amusements parks, which spurred the popularity of popcorn.
The first popcorn maker was steam driven which The Food Service Equipment Division patented in 1885. It allowed the popcorn to be popped in oil, and then later, they had a gas powered popcorn vendors. People began selling popcorn using this machine on the streets, in front of the amusement parks, stores and theaters to attract people to buy popcorn. Percy Spencer from the Raytheon Manufacturing found a way to mass-produce magnetrons to produce microwaves and with this technology, it gave Spencer the idea to make a microwave oven and he used kernels for his experiments. In 1940's, it allowed the people to make popcorn in their own homes using the microwave; you can enjoy eating popcorn even if you are not on the amusement parks or in cinemas. The Food Processing System divisions grant the exclusive right to market the hot air fluidized bed oven to produce high amounts of popcorn that in 1967.
Today, people are buying old-fashioned popcorn makers to cook delicious popcorn in social events or for one's own pleasure at the comfort of one's home. People want to purchase popcorn maker because they may need to make more than cooking a few bags of microwave popcorn. Owning a popcorn machine would be fun for a family and friends to spend some quality time together while watching your favorite programs on TV or movies. Popcorn makers have different types and brands but today, most popcorn makers were run by gas or electricity. Most people usually buy red popcorn machine because it gives out an old fashioned and traditional look to the first ones that were made in the late 1890's and 1900's. Popcorn makers have different range of prices depending on the amount of popcorn the machine can produce and if they have cart. There are two types of popcorn makers available for home use, hot air poppers that allow you to make fat and salt free popcorn that is the healthiest way of making popcorn and oil poppers that uses heated oil to cook the popcorn.
You can also check it out your hand at the stovetop popper; this is the long-standing method of popping corn that is still used today and also the most complicated to use because most of the time it might overcook the popcorn you are cooking. There are other models that use electricity and sit on the counter top, which allow you to control the amount of toppings that go into a batch of popcorn, just as you can with an air popper. The popcorn and popcorn makers have become popular that there is a museum of popcorn. This museum is called Wyandot Popcorn Museum, which has many refurbished antique popcorn machines that was invented in the late 1890's and 1900's. The Wyandot Popcorn Museum is situated in Marion, Ohio, which unwrapped to the public in September of 1982. W. Hoover Brown and the only popcorn museum in the world founded the museum.
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