I Hate Oil Companies

I guess the new policy is to either pay up front with cash or give them a credit card. So, here I am sitting here is a 50 degree house during the day hoping that I can schedule an appointment for next week so my children do not need to wait yet another week to get heat. We've been huddled in the family room and kitchen where the oven and space heater are. I have ugly thick vinyl on the windows and where the rooms separate because my landlord thinks the cold problems in the house are due to the house being old.

I have about $114 at the oil company right now so a minimum fill would cost me a little over $300.00. Fine. I will have that on Monday but I would like to just SCHEDULE an appointment so they can be here when I have the cash. Can I do that?

NO.

I have to wait until I have the cash next week so my kids will be freezing because these stupid jerks will not schedule and it will take another week to schedule the appointment once I get the cash. I could have had them come out on Monday and if I didn't have the cash then they could have used that for someone else.

Is it THAT hard? Have I EVER ripped them off? No. I've never stiffed them for the bill or anything. Yet still my kids and I are punished because some moron did?

Am I angry? YES. I'm about to go tell the oil company River Country Co-Op - the one doing this - to go do something else with their oil and I'll go all electric if possible. Unfortunately this stupid house is so drafty that oil is going to be the only way to go.

Yes, I'm tempted to just move back home to California where I don't need to heat my house in the frigid winter.

I might just take the $114 and put it into another oil company but I hear they're all like that now.

Sad too, my family money is invested into oil too. I'll make sure to invest it into other sources of heat when I get the money in a few years. It's invested in West coast companies right now and I'll be sure not to invest it here.