Oil delivery service
We ran out of oil today (and the consolidation of oil delivery services in Portland has reached the point where there is no longer any sunday service) so I needed to run down to the gas station and pick up a few gallons to keep the furnace ticking over until tomorrow. An amusing discovery: it’s cheaper to buy (taxed) fuel oil than it is to get (untaxed) heating oil delivered to our house. If not for the teeny detail that a 50 gallon tank trailer would weigh approximately a quarter-ton loaded I’d be tempted to leave out the middleman, buy the oil from the gas station, and petition the feds for a gas tax rebate.