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| Last week, MEMA attended the Annual Propane Show in Worcester, MA
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| Jamie and Matt with Ray Murray guys, Casey and Burt, at the Northeast Propane Show
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| Thank you to Jim McKenna for supporting MTEC with this gas boiler from US Boiler, Burnham Co.
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Warm Thoughts Communications is the nation’s leading marketing firm specializing in the residential energy industry. For more than 25 years, we’ve brought cutting-edge strategies to heating oil, propane and HVAC companies from Maine to California and everywhere in between. Our team of 30+ professionals eat, sleep and breathe your business and have done work for hundreds of companies and energy associations, including MEMA!
We support our clients in a number of ways – from website development and ongoing digital marketing to direct mail campaigns and customer communications to strategic consulting to improve profitability – and take pride in the breakthrough results we’ve generated. To learn more about how we can help your business, visit us at www.warmthoughts.com.
Federated Insurance
Every day people are injured in the workplace and on our highways. Each year billions of dollars of property are destroyed due to fire and employment related lawsuits are becoming more common every year. We are going to take a look at what can be done to help prevent these losses.
What you will learn:
This webinar will help you decide what to train your employees on and review some commonly used tools and resources that can make your training easier, effective and more efficient.
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Warm Thoughts Communications
With your customers spending two hours every day on social media, it's clear why more and more fuel companies are leveraging this platform to attract new business, elevate their brand presence, generate glowing reviews and increase retention. But there’s a big difference between simply having a Facebook page and using it effectively to grow your business.
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Federated Insurance
Ward Group®, a Cincinnati-based consulting firm specializing in the insurance industry, recently named Federated Mutual to the top 50 U.S.-based property and casualty companies and Federated Life to the top 50 U.S.-based life insurance companies.
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Slant/Fin
TO ALL REVITAL/LINE INSTALLING CONTRACTORS:
Revitalize your Customer's Rooms with Revital/Line, and we will send you a Rebate and new Sales Leads!
By submitting a Before and After picture of your Revital/Line Installation and a copy of your Wholesaler invoice, you will get back $1 per foot.
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NEFI
NEFI is seeking a multi-year extension of the biodiesel tax credit, which expired on December 31, 2017. This extension will provide greater market certainty, support the continued growth of biodiesel-blended heating oil (also known as Bioheat® Fuel), and help incentivize related investments in biodiesel production, blending, storage and distribution. Congressional leaders are debating the fate of the biodiesel tax credit behind closed doors. Discussions are heating up and time is of the essence. Click here to take action!
NEFI
While pipeline expansion to bring more natural gas into the Northeast has been difficult for the pipeline and natural gas industry for the past few years, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has begun to allow such expansions, keeping with the Trump Administration and Congress' policy initiatives to streamline the pipeline permit process.
Federal regulators have overruled the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation's decision to block a $450 million natural gas pipeline from Pennsylvania into the Buffalo, NY area.
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NEFI
THIS WEEK IN CONGRESS
The House of Representatives is on its annual August recess and will not resume legislative business until after Labor Day. The Senate is operating under an abbreviated schedule this August for the consideration of nominees and fiscal year 2019 appropriations bills.
ANTICIPATING HOUSE TAKEOVER, SENIOR DEMOCRAT FLOATS CAP & TRADE BILL
Five-term Congressman Paul Tonko (D-NY20) will offer a cap-and-trade bill to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to political news outlet Axios. In a letter to select interest groups, Tonko requested input on how to best structure a cap-and-trade bill and how related federal revenues should be used. Tonko is Ranking Democrat of the environment panel of the House Energy & Commerce Committee and likely to become its Chairman if his party wins the House in November. As such, he would be well positioned to offer cap-and-trade legislation. Unlike a carbon tax, which has some limited support among Republicans, a cap-and-trade bill is unlikely to become law unless Democrats retake both chambers of Congress and the White House.
Biomass Magazine
On June 26, the U.S. EPA released a proposed rule that aims to require 19.88 billion gallons of biofuels to be blended into the U.S. fuel supply in 2019, up from 19.29 billion gallons in 2018. The proposed volume allows for up to 15 billion gallons of corn ethanol.
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New Hampshire Public Radio
Governors from every New England state but Maine are weighing in on lowering energy rates.
Their joint statement comes as they meet on energy and other issues with leaders from Eastern Canada.
The five governors say they'll work to encourage energy efficiency this coming winter. They say more hydro, wind and natural gas capacity will help lower rates and boost reliability too.
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PGANE and Propane Education & Research Council
Customer Service Representatives play a vital role in the success of your company How prepared are your CSRs to handle calls from customers who smell gas? Their response can help you avoid costly litigation and stay off the evening news.
Watch this weeks video.
Financial Post
A combination of delayed pipeline construction and rationing on current pipelines has resulted in more Canadian crude oil being moved by rail. Canada's National Energy Board reported that nearly 200,000 barrels per day moved by rail car in May, which was 42 percent higher than the same month of last year. The International Energy Agency is suggesting that rail shipments in Canada could reach 590,000 barrels per day in 2019, driving freight costs on the product significantly higher.
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Bloomberg
Investors are about to find out whether the world’s largest oil companies have learned their lesson from $80 billion of cost blowouts in major projects during the era of $100 crude.
From liquefied natural gas in Mozambique to deep-oil in Guyana, the world’s biggest energy companies are gearing up to sanction the first slate of mega-projects since the price crash in 2014, Wood Mackenzie Ltd. analysts including Angus Rodger said in a report.
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MEMA
MEMA
Just scheduled! Oilheat Journeyman’s Prep Class! Saturday, Sept. 29 from 7:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. Click HERE to register.
For 2018 Classes Click HERE.
MEMA
With our 2018 NNEEC already behind us, we are already looking towards 2019 and getting excited for yet another exciting weekend in Cape Neddick, ME at the Cliff House Resort and Spa. Please use room block code: 0619MEMA and book your rooms HERE!
Convenience Store News
Convenience store retail sales appear to be recovering from last year’s unexpected slump, but it’s still too early to predict that c-store industry sales growth will return to its robust, pre-2017 rates. Driven by strong sales in other tobacco products, and rebounding sales gains in the packaged beverages and beer categories, convenience store sales growth appears to be more positive through the first six months of this year, according to the 2018 Convenience Store News Midyear Report Card.
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