High it may be but it's the quoted price nonetheless. We had used this particular vendor for quite some time since they were far and away the cheapest around. Our oil burner is fairly new, less than 10 years old with an overhaul maybe 2 years ago.

I'd like to think that speculators are the source of a major portion of the price increase, at least it gives me something concrete to be pissed off at. But I've read quite a few places in articles by people who seem to know a lot more about it than I, that speculators are not a major source of the increase; maybe some of it but not an amount such that if they were all "rudely awakened" tomorrow, the bottom would drop out of the market and the price would plummet.

Sleeping bags, blankets, sweaters, sweatshirts, and maybe a nose cozy will be hot items in our house this winter.