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Erik Bjornstad: Aug 18 2026
The first real cold night arrives sometime in October, the thermostat calls for heat, and the furnace that sat quiet since April either fires or it...
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Erik Bjornstad: Feb 22 2018
As Bell Performance has been based in Florida since the late-1930s, we don’t see much home heating oil usage down here. But we do a substantial...
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Erik Bjornstad: Dec 14 2017
"Sludge" is a phenomenon that you see with any kind of petroleum that’s left in storage for extended periods of time. As time passes and petroleum is...
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Erik Bjornstad: Dec 5 2017
This blog is for the portion of the country that still uses heating oil for their homes. That's about 6 million households across the country burning...
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Erik Bjornstad: Sep 20 2016
Bell Performance has been based in Florida ever since company founder Robert Bell moved down from Norfolk, Virginia in the 1930s. There’s not a lot...
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Erik Bjornstad: Nov 12 2015
Bell Performance is based down in Central Florida, which doesn’t get very cold in the winter. But we know it’s a different story up north, and a lot...
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Erik Bjornstad: Jul 28 2015
Apart from farming, the primary use for red dyed diesel fuel is in home heating oil.
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Erik Bjornstad: Oct 9 2014
It's that time again. Homeowners up in the soon-to-be-frosty North know what's coming. Old Man Winter is showing signs of crashing fall's party - and...
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Although winter has made itself known with record snowfall nearly everywhere in the country coupled with record cold temperatures, spring is right...
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Natural gas is an integral part of the debate concerning energy independence here in the United States. New technologies for finding and extracting...
