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Article courtesy of the ICPA

Keep Wall Street Honest, Call Congress Today!

Virtually all the natural gas, electricity and petroleum sold in the U.S. and worldwide is traded first as commodities in contracts on commodities exchanges worldwide.

As agency of the U.S. Government, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is suppose to oversee the daily trading of contracts to ensure markets operate free from manipulation

Nineteen individuals were indicted in the Enron scandal, a scandal that involved Enron's manipulation of the California electricity market through trades of electricity contracts. Amaranth is now at issue under allegations it manipulated the natural gas markets.

Some may believe energy market instability during the last seven years has arisen through an imbalance of supply and demand, while others contend manipulation of the type seen in the Enron and Amaranth scandals is at fault.

S.2058, Senator Carl Levin's (D-MI) "The close the Enron Loophole Act", started with a GAO investigation of the CFTC's authorities as initially requested by Congressman John Larson. Senator Lieberman is a cosponsor of the senate legislation.

The ICPA Independent Connecticut Petroleum Association is our association working with us to protect consumers and has been the driving force with hundreds of similar associations around the country to get this important legislation passed.

Join with us in contacting our Connecticut Congressional delegation and asking each and every one of them to reaffirm their support to pass the S.2058 legislation and to make sure energy markets are properly overseen by government and free from manipulation.

Also visit www.FightOilPrices.com

 

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Smart controls: The latest in micro-processing technologies allows the system to automatically adjust itself to changing environmental requirements resulting in fewer on/off cycles. This reduces fuel consumption, wear on equipment, exhaust emissions and electrical usage by the system.

High-pressure flame retention burners: Hotter flames with less air and fuel required are evidence of improvements in the high-flow atomization and vaporizing technologies used in the newer burners today.

Safe: Fuel oil, in its natural liquid state, wont burn. It must be vaporized to ignite. It will not burn if a lit match is thrown into a puddle of it. By virtue of this quality, it cannot explode when exposed to a spark or flame. Also, heating oil fumes are not poison like natural gas.

Clean Burning: The average oil burning system emits 6 ounces of particulate emissions (soot) per year or roughly 1/8th of a pound of soot for every ton of fuel oil burned. That marks a 95% improvement over the last 25 years or so. There are no federal regulations on heating oil emissions.

If you heat with another source of energy or are building new, then you should be aware that heating oil is a viable option to meet your familys heating needs.

Heating oil technology has kept pace with the competition from other heating options and in some cases surpassed it. If you currently heat with oil, then it is a safe bet that it will continue to serve you well into the new century before us.

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