<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a0a7456f-83cb-4185-9f46-5be9bd9c5d95/C0AAE409-2E11-4A9C-BD42-7A66A7F91F07/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080708/GJOPINION_01/748806382" href="http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080708/GJOPINION_01/748806382" style="font-size: 11px;">www.fosters.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080708/GJOPINION_01/748806382"><DIV> There are parts of Maine that could “become uninhabitable” this winter.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080708/GJOPINION_01/748806382"><DIV>The words were those of U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe and they came last week at a meeting of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee. Snowe is the ranking Republican member of the panel.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080708/GJOPINION_01/748806382"><DIV>The threat of home heating oil selling for almost $5 a gallon is very real. As the price of heating fuels rise, some people will be forced to lower their thermostats to unhealthy levels. Some will even be forced to leave their homes.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080708/GJOPINION_01/748806382"><DIV>The elderly and the poor will be hit the hardest.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080708/GJOPINION_01/748806382"><DIV>The Northeast — New England and the central Atlantic states — will be hit hardest again this year. Some predictions have the cost of heating an average home for the winter reaching $3,000 or $4,000. It is predicted the national average this year will be $2,593 — a jump of more than 32 percent over last year.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C0AAE409-2E11-4A9C-BD42-7A66A7F91F07/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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