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Harrisburg Fuel Oil Prices for December, 2011
If anyone in the Harrisburg area heats their home with oil, here is a list of info for you including phone numbers and current prices (as of 12/12/2011). I have always paid on delivery and never signed up for a payment plan or auto fill program. I encourage anyone who heats their house with oil to call these companies and get their latest price before scheduling an oil delivery.
- ABC Fuel Oil: $3.899/gallon
Phone: 717-545-4758 - Aero Energy: $3.999/gallon
Phone: 717-234-4133 - Best Price Oil: $3.599/gallon – (also offer $.05 off per gallon coupon from last delivery)
Phone: 717-564-8237 - Bilo Oil: $3.899/gallon
Phone: 888-289-2456 - Capitol City Oil: $3.699 – (will beat any price by $.02)
Phone: 717-737-4188 - Eshenaurs: $3.899/gallon
Phone: 717-236-5031 - H.B. McClure: $3.899
Phone: 717-232-4328 - Keystone Oil: (employees left at 4 PM)
Phone: 717-737-3451 - Superior Plus: No answer
Phone: 888-666-8687
American Auto Transport Scam
Maybe the word scam isn’t correct. But this company has a serious issue with what it is doing.
I received a phone call Saturday from 954-915-3610. When I answered I heard a pre-recorded message asking me to hit a number to accept the call, or select a different number to leave a call back number.
I hung up the phone. But apparently I have Google Voice activated and receive a text message that I have a voice mail. Google Voice also send me a text of the message. This is the same voice mail I receive every time this company calls me.
Hi, I’m calling from the Auto Transport Company, we’re calling to see if you still need to have your vehicle moved. We have a driver in your area. My number is (954) 745-8950 again. That’s (954) 745-8950 we’re calling to see if you still need to have your vehicle moved. We havea driver in your area again. The number is (954) 745-8950. Thank you.
I called the number in the voice mail and asked why they were calling me. The man asked if I had a car that needed moved. I told him no. I then asked to be removed from the call list. He said sure and hung up. Today I received about 6 more phone calls from this number. Exact same scenarios. I called back again and asked to speak with a manager. The man said his boss just got in and wasn’t available yet. I told the man I didn’t care and wanted to speak to him. The man put me through to a line that was disconnected.
I’m not sure I have an answer for this issue yet. However I did file a complaint with the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office using their DNC complaint form.
Centralia, Pennsylvania
Over the weekend I had a chance to visit Centralia, Pennsylvania with some friends. Centralia is a town in the coal region of Pennsylvania has had a coal fire burning below it since 1962. Most of the residents have moved but some still remain.
More info on Centralia can be found through David Dekok’s website and books on the disaster. Wikipedia also has information on Centralia, Pennsylvania.
Interesting notes via Wikipedia:
- The town of Centralia was featured in the episode “Engineering Disasters #7″ of Modern Marvels on the History Channel.
- The town was featured in episode #59, “Fire”, of the radio program This American Life.
- The town was featured in an episode of Life After People: The Series on the History Channel. It was used as an example of what would happen to a town after twenty five years without humans.
- The town is the inspiration for the 1991 cult film Nothing But Trouble, written by Dan Aykroyd.
- In the 2006 horror film Silent Hill, the town of Silent Hill has been abandoned due to a prolonged mine fire, which writer Roger Avary says was inspired by Centralia.[16] Aspects of this are shown throughout the movie, such as characters wandering through the misty version of Silent Hill wearing mining gear.
Vent pipes that vent gases from the mine fire burning below dot the landscape.
Route 61.
Politics in Centralia, Pennsylvania. A sign from the residents of Centralia to the Governor or Pennsylvania.
Cemetery headstones visible beyond a wasteland landscape.
S S Peter-Paul North Cemetery.
St. Ignatius Cemetery.
Old Route 61 which is abandoned and falling apart due to the coal fire burning beneath it.
The coal fire burning below old Route 61 has destroyed the road surface.
This pit outside the cemetery contains a crack that is smoking from the coal fire still burning since 1962.