New English naturalist descended from generations of privileged white European settlers, now living on lands of the Pocumtuck and Nipmuc. Anti-racist, anti-fascist. He/they.
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Also, I suspect that they make very small margins on the oil deliveries, and make most of their margins on annual furnace maintenance and emergency repairs. So, this way they get to keep you as a maintenance and repair customer, and eventually won’t have to keep up the barely profitable fleet of tanker trucks.
It’s like the families-owned companies that have been around since the pre-electric days who used to deliver ice for refrigeration and coal for heating. Then they switched to delivering heating oil and propane, and now are adapting again.