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Senate Bill 2404 - An Act Relative to
Facilitating Homeowner Heating Oil Spill
Remediation, passed the Senate recently,
and now moves to the House. MOC
continues to work on modifying the language
requiring all oil lines without a continuous
sleeve or Oil Safety Valve (OSV) to be
upgraded in the near future. This bill has
been circulating on Beacon Hill for nearly 4
years and MOC has shown steady support.
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MOC's efforts to get the Massachusetts
Congressional delegation on board with the
Levin/Welch "Close the Enron Loophole" bill
has paid off with Congressman Jim
McGovern signing on in support right before
the Thanksgiving break. To help push for
passage of the bill MOC recently ran sizable
print ads in major dailies in Worcester,
Springfield, Quincy, Cape Cod, Salem and
metro west. Woodbury & Morse, the public
relations agency supported by MOC, created
the ad and placed the media buy. MOC also
mailed 50,000 bill stuffers to members so
that customers would see the industry's
efforts and join in calling for Congressional
action.
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MOC seized a last minute opportunity to
place a full page NORA ad in the official
2008 "First Night" Boston Program Guide.
The guide has huge circulation in
supermarkets and retail outlets and will be
seen by more than 500,000 people. The ad --
"At least there's intelligence in your
basement." - is a perfect fit for the festive
nature of New Year's Eve. The ad can be
seen on the home page on MOC's web site
www.massoilheat.org.
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Members should have received, via mail, a
color copy of a customer letter MOC drafted
in response to the rise in crude oil and home
heating oil prices. Please use this letter as a
mailer to your customer base or simply as
talking points when speaking with
customers. The letter is also available for
download through the link below.
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With the help of Greystone Services,
production and layout of the 2008 MOC
Directory and Handbook is going into full
swing. MOC will be juggling space for about
50 advertisers in this year's book. If you have
not already done so, please send all of your
advertising materials to
Zahra@massoilheat.org as soon as
possible. The directory will be mailed out to
all members and associates in early 2008.
MOC would like to thank the following
2008 advertisers for their generous support:
ADD Systems, Angus Energy,
Arlex Oil, Boston Steel, Braley & Wellington,
Buderus, Burnham Hydronics, Carlin
Combustion, Citizens Bank, Clean Harbors
Enviromental, COCARD, Conifer Energy,
Cororan & Halvin, D.B. Enviromental, Dennis
K. Burke, Donadio Enviromental, Energy
Kinetics, Federated Insurance, Fleetmatics,
Global Companies, Gray, Gray & Gray, Gulf
Oil, Hall-Trask Equipment, Hedge Solutions,
Irving Oil, Keegan Werlin, L.E. Belcher,
ODIN, Lincoln Labs/Bond Tite, Minuteman
Trucks, NAOHSM, NE Petroleum Service &
Supply, Norfolk Ram, Peerless Boilers,
PriMedia, R.W. Beckett Corp., Robinson &
Cole, Roth Industries, Smith Cast Iron,
SPLASH, Sprague Energy, Patriot Financial
Group, The Portland Group, Therma-Flow,
Tri-State Truck Center, Web Engineering,
WEHOF Forms and Weil McLain
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MOC Member COCARD Can Help Your
Business This Winter
Reduced Credit Card Fees Add to Your Bottom Line As members are well aware, over the past
few years, MOC has been communicating
with its Oilheat and propane dealers about
drastic Visa and MasterCard processing
reductions available to them. Now that the
price for products has reached record highs,
and
with commodity markets increasingly
unstable, and winter weather hitting
home, it is more important than ever for
members to consider taking advantage of
this special program only available to the
heating fuels industry. Most dealers
participating in the program can save at least
2 to 3 cents per gallon equivalent. This rate
will only take effect if you are enrolled in the
correct pricing program. If marketers have
any questions or would like to verify if they
are currently receiving the lowest rates they
are entitled to, please contact COCARD at
(866) 849-8800 or
info@cocardprocessing.com.
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MOC would like to welcome Stephan Chase
and his company, Fuel Services,
Inc. out of Westfield as a new retail
member to the Council.
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email:
zahra@massoilheat.org
phone:
781-237-0730
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