HOPEFULLY, NEW ENGLAND WILL BE LUCKY this winter. No Polar Vortex. No endless snowstorm piling nine feet of frozen fluff on Boston. But whatever our luck, there are certain unavoidable facts of life that every New Englander will experience this winter. Even the staunchest New England opponent of increased natural gas pipeline capacity cannot dispute that: (1) winter is coming; (2) our winters get darned cold; and (3) the typical New Englander again will pay a lot more for home heating than the typical resident of every other state but Alaska. The Energy Information Administration’s recently released its “Short-Term Energy and Winter Fuels Outlook,” which shows regional heating fuel market shares in colorful pie charts. While heating oil/kerosene is a barely visible “sliver of the pie” in the Midwest, West, and South (maybe 1-2 percent), it is a very unhealthy portion of the Northeast’s (New England, New Jersey, New […]