I have been watching the price of heating oil go up and up since the present administration took office. I keep looking for news coverage as to why it is so high, and the only thing I have seen is reports on how much higher it is from the year before and that the oil industries comments that this is due to short supplies.

Heating oil is now about $1.30 a gallon, diesel fuel at the corner station is $1.49 and has about a $.40 cent road tax. Why is heating oil more expensive than diesel when it cost less to make heating oil? Why is heating oil less then a buck a gallon in Pennsylvania? Why are the oil companies using the excuse that supplies are short for ripping us off when they control the supplies?

It must be nice to be able to control a monopoly to the point where by making less you make more money. Maybe heating oil would not cost so much if these oil companies did not give so much money to there cronies in Washington.

Roger M. Ducharme, Poland

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