a petroleum product used for fuel

it might be especially effective in climates where homeowners need home heating oil or propane to heat their homes in winter, and electricity-guzzling air conditioners to cool their homes in summer.

尤其是在冬季气温较低，需要在业主在家里使用油，丙烷来取暖，和使用电力空调狂吹的夏天。

this fall, many of mr. singer’s customers purchased fixed-rate plans to lock in winter heating oil at around $3 a gallon.

今秋，singer的许多客户按照每加侖取暖用油3美元购买了固定价格计划，以锁定今冬用油。

consumers paying more for their petrol and heating oil have less to spend on other things.

消费者要为汽油及燃油付出更多，而这会减少他们在其他方面的消费。

aside from the city’s efforts to curb smoking, mr. bloomberg said the heating oil regulations were 「the single biggest step that we’ve taken to save lives.」

布隆伯格先生称除了限烟的努力，取暖用燃油法规是「我们所采取的拯救生命的最大一个步伐」。

that might be true, but they’re also not paying $600 dollars a month in winter to keep their heating oil tanks full.

那也许是事实，但是在冬季为了把暖气的油箱加满而每月要花费的600美元，他们却省掉了。

u.s. distillate stocks, which include heating oil and diesel fuel, fell 340,000 barrels, against a forecast for about the same size build.

包括取暖油和柴油在内的美国馏分油库存，下降340,000桶，与大约同量的建仓预测相悖。

the type of tanker truck that used to deliver heating oil now delivers wood pellets, the major heating fuel in the city’s more remote areas.

过去运送民用燃油的油罐卡车现在被用来运送木头颗粒——这个城市较偏远的地区主要的取暖燃料。

it’s good, for example, that futures markets provide an incentive to stockpile heating oil before the weather gets cold and stockpile gasoline ahead of the summer driving season.

比如，期货市场在天气变冷前能为燃油库存和夏季驾驶季节前的汽油库存提供激励。

under the new rule, by 2015, existing boilers must switch from no. 6 oil to a low-sulfur version of the no. 4 heating oil or to an equivalent cleaner fuel.

按照这项新法规，截止2015年，现存锅炉必须由6号燃料油换成4号低硫型燃料油或与之相当的较为清洁的燃料。

she has no business background but recently received two chickens and a goat from the bank and started selling eggs and heating oil from her house.

乔安特没有什么商业背景，不过最近从银行里领到2只鸡和一头山羊，她便在她房子那里开始卖鸡蛋和燃料油。

in other nymex trading in october contracts, heating oil was up 1.2 cents at $2.116 a gallon and gasoline added 1.47 cents to $1.988 a gallon.

在纽约商品期货交易所（nymex）的另一单十月合约中，燃油价格上涨1.2美分至$2.116一加侖，汽油增加了1.47美分至$1.988一加侖。

but as cold weather engulfed western europe, with temperatures dropping below freezing in paris, london and berlin, consumption of heating oil and fuel oil surged, traders say.

交易员表示，随着寒冷天气席卷西欧，巴黎、伦敦和柏林的气温降至冰点以下，取暖油和燃料油的消费都大幅增加。

americans will probably see lower energy bills this winter, as gasoline and heating oil futures also dropped sharply on thursday.

由于周四天然气和燃料油的期货暴跌，这个冬天，美国人在能源花销上会省不少钱。

and with the cost of heating oil and natural gas increasingly prone to spikes, some homeowners in the northeast, pockets of the midwest and even alaska are deciding coal is worth the trouble.

在燃油及天然气价格接近顶峰的背景下，一部分东北各州家庭、一小部分中西部各州家庭甚至阿拉斯加的家庭都认为，用煤是划算的。