Today's front page: The Patriots, oil prices, a teen's death
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Get the 7 to 7 on your mobile at www.projo.com. Twitter: projo | RSS | Email alerts Today's front page features a photograph of the Patriots celebrating a touchdown in their 41-7 win over the Broncos last night, a consumer story about some Rhode Islanders who regret locking into oil contracts this winter and the story about a teenager who was found dead in Norfolk, Mass. Download a copy of today's front page in .pdf format. 
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No matter how you spin it, our oil prices still went up 20% from 2007. I guess the theory is that if you scare people into believing the price will rise to over $4 a gallon, they will be relieved when it only goes from 277.3 to 326.8 in a year's time.
Take a look at the Us DOE web site that shows Weekly Rhode Island No. 2 Heating Oil Residential Price from Oct 1990 to Oct 2008:
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/hist/whore084w.htm
We lowered our thermostat to 55 last year. I guess we can tough it out to 50 this year. The good news is that many viruses do not thrive at that low a temperature, so this may be our healthiest year yet.
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