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LI home fuel oil prices highest in years

Originally published: February 22, 2012 7:01 PM
Updated: February 23, 2012 9:47 AM
By TOM INCANTALUPO  tom.incantalupo@newsday.com

Quick ReadThe new price of $4.242 at full-service dealers tops last season's high of $4.238 and is the highest since Sept. 8, 2008, the state survey says.

Lenny Spano of Hart Oil makes a home

Photo credit: Newsday/Audrey C. Tiernan | Lenny Spano of Hart Oil makes a home heating oil delivery. (March 15, 2011)

The price of home heating oil on Long Island climbed in the week ended Monday to its highest in more than three years, $4.242 a gallon, as fears of Mideast unrest inflated prices of crude oil and refined fuels.

The new price at full-service dealers tops last season's high of $4.238 and is the highest since Sept. 8, 2008, in the survey done by the New York State Energy Research and Development...

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