What happened to the warm weather?

It is the middle of June and here we are with long sleeves and sweatshirts! The heating season is supposed to be over but many people are turning on the propane fireplaces to take the chill off. Don't let the cool water of your pool keep you from swimming- Let Holden Oil help you keep swimming with a pool heater.

The Easy Pay Budget plan for Heating oil and propane ends this month with settlement statements having been mailed out on the First of June. The new Easy Pay Budget will start in August as it does each year. If you have been on the plan in the past year, we will automatically calculate your new plan. If you have not been on it and wish to be, just give us a call in the office.

The Easy Pay Budget is a way of spreading out your heating oil or propane gas payments out over eleven months. We estimate your usage based on the past several years and we estimate what your cost for the year will be based on government predicitions of the average cost of oil or propane. It is an inexact science and that is why some years we have either asked you to lower or raise your budget payments during the year with the hope that the final June payment will be as close to your actual balance as possible. Do not hesitate to call us if you have any questions.

Memorial Day is Grilling Time!

The weather has finnally warmed and now it is time to get out those propane gas grills and start cooking! Holden Oil's propane gas filling station is open 7 days a week during the summer to get your tanks full for the grill or the RV.

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Earth Day

Holden Oil was represented in the Riverfest-Earth Day celebration on the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston last Friday. We helped man the Bioheat booth and explain the benefits of bioheat and biofuels from an oil dealers prespective. There were thousands of people and great music!

On Saturday April 30th, Holden Oil will be displaying a Dixie Chopper propane powered commercial lawn mower at the Peabody Green Fest being held at the Peabody Community Life Center on Central Street. Propane powered mowers and lawn equipment are environmentally friendly and are very economical. Come on down to see what is considered the best propane powered mower on the market along with other displays of environmentally friendly products offered by North Shore companies.

Equipment Rentals

Rental bills for Propane tanks and equipment have been sent out, as they have for over twenty years. The rental allows Holden Oil to maintain, and replace when needed, your propane tanks and regulating equipment. Just as the electric utility and the natural gas utility charge a minimum fee each billing cycle to keep you connected to the grid, Holden Oil must insure a minimum return from the very expensive equipment that is provided. We have worked to keep the rental charges among the lowest in the industry, despite the huge increases in the cost of the equipment.

End of another winter

Yes, even us heating guys are ready to head into spring! With the snow this weekend, you get really antsy for the grass to start growing and the trees to bud out. In the oil and propane business, a system called degree days is used to help figure out how much fuel oil or propane you consume. If this year seems as though you may have used more than last year, you probably did because that is what the degree days are telling us. From September 1 until March 31, there has been roughly 4.25% more degree days than last year. For the average home in the northshore area, that amounts to about 35 gallons more heating oil consumed. Unfortunately, the price of heating oil is just about one dollar per gallon higher than last year and propane is about thirtyfive cents higher so that increase in consumption feels even worse.

Please remember the oil or propane man! That is the wish of the drivers responsible to get heating oil or propane gas to your home. As we continue on with this record setting snow pace, more and more oil fill pipes and propane tanks are becoming virtually unreachable. The drivers do their very best to make every delivery possible and we understand when someone is unable to clear a path for the driver but if at all possible please help the driver by shoveling.



The last cold snap clearly showed the advantage of purchasing a better grade of diesel fuel for your truck. Holden Oil customers avoided fuel related problems when the temperature dropped below zero. Holden Oil supplies a superior grade diesel fuel formulated for cold weather performance.

Portable heaters to beat the chill

As the temperature drops, working in an unheated space becomes very difficult. Holden Oil has construction heaters in stock to help spread the warmth and increase your comfort. In our Peabody office, we have propane torpedo style L.B. White heaters in stock. We also have convection style salamander heaters that require no electricity.

If you already have a heater, we always have a large assortment of portable propane cylinders- from the common 20 pound grill size cylinder to to the larger 40, 50 and 60 pound cylinders. Our propane refill station is open six days a week in the winter to help keep you warm.