PRE-BUY PROTECTION
When you Pre-buy heating oil from Discount-Fuel.com, you lock in a rate that guarantees your heating oil prices won’t rise unexpectedly during the contracted time period. Pre-buy protection insulates you and your heating oil costs from the variations of the energy market.
When you select Pre-buy Protection, you pay a single payment upfront for as much fuel oil as you would like to buy (up to a total of 12 month projected consumption) and the oil will be delivered to you as you need it. The oil is yours to keep.
If you do not use all of the pre-purchased oil, it will remain on your account.
So, you would choose this option if you feel oil prices will rise rather than fall during your contracted time period, and want to lock in what you believe will be a lower rate today.
PRICE CAP PROTECTION PLAN
Discount-Fuel.com’s Price Cap Protection Plan puts a cap on your heating oil price that guarantees not to exceed the contracted cap price. This is based on your 12 month consumption usage. The cap plan protects you from price spikes, but still gives to you benefit of any price drops in heating oil prices. So, if the daily cost of heating oil rises, you will still pay the lower contracted price.
This plan requires a $150 service fee.
FIXED PRICE PROTECTION PLAN
You will never have to worry about monitoring the prices of oil with the Fixed Price Protection Plan. This plan allows you to lock in a guaranteed fixed price during your contracted time period of 12 months. This means the price will not go up or down. It will remain at the agreed upon price. The oil will be delivered to you as you need it. Either by automatic delivery or will call.