TABLE OF CONTENTS Featuring
16 Getting to the Bottom of Crushing Oil Prices: Part 2 What’s driving our new oil reality—supply and demand or rampant
speculation? 28 Ultimately Renewable Fuel Pennsylvania woodworkers tap trees for lifestyle and energy, too 16 32 The Call of Service 32 36
28 “Wood is our lifestyle, our bread n’ butter, and is at the core of everything we do,” said Merv Wenger, owner of Wenger Woodworks in Manheim, PA. But where most millworks castoff the wood waste, the Wengers turn it into burnable energy.
A profile of NAOHSM’s vice president
36 Tools & Service Equipment Roundup Our annual review of products to help the service technician
44 Is fuel oil a dying industry? Charles Bursey talks about the threat the gas companies pose to fuel oil 50 Wow, a really diverse winter!
DEPARTMENTS 3 Dateline & News 4
Calendar
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Classified Advertising Advertisers’ Index
COLUMNS 8
ON THE COVER
Editorial
44 Is fuel oil a dying industry?
by Charles Bursey
50 Wow, a really diverse winter!
John Griffin wonders why some technicians weren’t so busy this winter by John Griffin
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