The table lists energy prices plucked at random during the past, there is nothing particular about any dates selected except that someone within our organization decided to work out the comparative costs of each unit of energy. The source for the data was not taken from hypothetical marketing worksheets. Rather, they were taken from rock solid invoices of ours or of our customers.

The only easy energy to purchase is gasoline: the price is clearly posted on the street corner and it is always easy to either drive by or stop in for a doughnut to go along with our tank full of juice. On the other hand, the typical Wall Street Journal will publish daily prices for heating oil behind a little asterisk that tells us we need to buy a tanker ship full of the stuff -and oh by the way- it's moored somewhere in downtown Manhattan, Manhattan New York, not Manhattan Ohio up by Toledo... Oooops and this little discrepancy easily adds a good fifty cents to the oil cost per gallon. OK. And if you think getting your energy locally from your local utility might be easier, think again, we might get lost in Manhattan, we'll never find the secret ways to figuring out what the actual gas and electric costs are from the rate sheets the Public Utilities cleverly hide from us. It's just that I know what my meter reads and I know what amount I write on the check. So there!