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Of the nearly 7 billion gallons of home heating oil sold each year in this country….about 80% is sold in the Northeast and mid-Atlantics States.

And this winter, the federal Energy Information Administration projects that heating with oil will cost about 28 percent more than last year.

And that's if it's an average winter.

Add in the possibility of a severe winter and those costs go still higher..

NHPR correspondent Shannon Mullen went along on an oil delivery route in southwestern New Hampshire to talk to some customers bracing for record heating costs, and she filed this report.