Bradley

This is where the president can have traction on getting heating oil costs down this winter.

And then he's already said to Microsoft and he negotiated with them and said, hey, look, if you're building a data center, you cannot dump that increase in cost onto the consumer.

So he's already aware of it and already drawing a line on it.

So we need help for the people that live in the northeast region.

We need the power companies, and we need the supply of oil to come up and the barrel costs to come down a little bit.

Those people with stock in Chevron and Exxon on the exploration side will disagree with that, but that's what we need because that will help.

But this article has a lot of stats from last year, and there is a reduction in heating oil costs.

Let me take a look.

Well, what's interesting is UPS is saying that it's cutting the jobs.

And the CFO was on a conference call and identified that a good number of the jobs are coming to attrition.

In other words, when people resign or retire, they're not replacing those particular jobs as they consolidate responsibilities, number one.

Number two, they had voluntary separation packages in areas where they had overhired during COVID.

Remember during COVID, nobody drove to Costco to pick up stuff.

Nobody went to Target.

Those were all being delivered by UPS.

Remember that big boxes of stuff?

And so UPS radically expanded.

And if you were working for UPS,

And you were delivering, you were getting overtime hours, you were getting extra shifts on weekends if you wanted them, and they were hiring more people in sorting facilities and in the small vehicle deliveries because not everything is a giant brown truck for UPS.

Well, all of that happened then, Pat, and then it's all come back down to earth as over the last three years, people are back to driving their SUV to Costco and picking the stuff up themselves.