What is automatic heating oil delivery?

Fall and winter can be a pretty busy time of the year, filled with school and work commitments, and eventually, the holiday season.

With all of that on your plate, the last thing you probably want to think about is the fuel gauge on your heating oil tank, or the phone call you will have to make to schedule your home heating oil delivery.

Unfortunately, you will have to if you want to avoid a no-heat emergency, or other consequences of a fuel run-out – unless you choose automatic heating oil delivery from Southville Petroleum.

Automatic delivery is available at no additional cost to you, and you will never pay for heating oil that you don’t use. Here are some other automatic heating oil delivery basics:

• Automatic delivery schedules are based on computer models that assess how much heating oil you’re likely to need based on past use and the current weather (we use a “degree day” formula, which estimates how much heating fuel a home your size would use given current weather conditions*). When your heating oil tank reaches about one-quarter full, we will schedule a delivery; you won’t need to call or even look at your fuel gauge.
• With automatic delivery, you don’t have to manage your fuel or wait for a delivery; it will be scheduled when you need it. With Will Call delivery, on the other hand, you are responsible for tracking your fuel levels and scheduling your heating oil deliveries. You may also have to wait for a refueling in periods of high demand.
• You might wonder why automatic delivery is offered as a no-fee service. The fact is, automatic delivery helps us, too: If we know when you need heating oil, we can schedule our delivery routes more efficiently, which means we can serve more customers and avoid having to send crews for emergency fuel-ups.

Let Southville Petroleum take the hassle out of managing your home heating oil supply with automatic delivery! Contact us today to learn more, or sign up for our full-service Gold Service Plan, which includes automatic delivery!

*One “degree day” is allotted for each degree below 65 that the average temperature reaches in your location on a given day. For example, if the average temperature is 35 degrees, 30-degree days are added to fuel your estimate).