Nearly 5 million households heat with oil, 82% of them in the Northeast. Their average winter bill rises from $1,749 to $2,297. Crude is holding near $103 a barrel and diesel is at a record.
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Home heating costs will rise 8.7% this winter
NEADA winter outlook projection carried by ABC News and other sources; a forecast, and the story does not name NEADA in its own wording
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Heating oil costs will rise 31.3% this winter
NEADA projection reported by ABC News and The Hill; forecast figure
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Nearly 5 million households heat with oil, 82% of them in the Northeast
Standard EIA/NEADA household counts; supported by multiple sources but unattributed in the story
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Average heating oil bills go from $1,749 last winter to $2,297
The Hill cites NEADA's $1,749 to $2,297 figures; forecast for the coming winter
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Natural gas up 5.8%, electricity up 9.0%, propane up 8.7%
NEADA fuel-by-fuel projections in the underlying outlook; forecasts, unattributed in the story's wording
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Maine heating oil is already $5.77 a gallon, 74% above a year ago
Single current price datapoint consistent with The Hill's Northeast heating-oil reporting; not attributed in the story