11.   Americans will be driving more in the summer, and a normally cool autumn and winter in the U.S. and Europe could increase the demand for heating oil.

12.   Among oil futures, heating oil rose the most.

13.   And a refinery fire in Singapore is expected to lower supplies of distillate fuels such heating oil and diesel in Asia.

14.   An energy expert and an oil industry executive charge that the petroleum will do little or nothing to avert an expected shortage of home heating oil this winter.

15.   An increase in demand would come after more than a week of mild weather drove prices lower and left U.S. natural gas and heating oil supplies larger than expected.

16.   An unexpected drop in refinery production caused inventories of heating oil and other distillate fuels to slip last week, a report from the American Petroleum Institute showed.

17.   Analysts caution prices for home heating oil, which is used widely in the Northeast, could increase as the weather turns colder and shortages develop.

18.   Analysts generally expect distillate inventories, which include heating oil, to rise as high refinery output exceeds demand for the winter heating fuel.

19.   And a third will alert the local oil dealer with the best price around that you are low on heating oil.

20.   Analysts expect a weekly industry report to be released later today to show a rise in U.S. inventories of both gasoline and heating oil.