1.   To make sure your heat pump is operating efficiently during the heating season, keep your eye on the outside coil.

2.   Our bees provide us with honey, and we cut enough wood to just about make it through the heating season.

3.   Consumers in Scotland, where the heating season is the longest in the UK, are expected to suffer most from the change.

4.   A common mistake with humidifiers is leaving them on after the heating season ends.

5.   Chimneys, stove pipes and furnaces should be inspected and cleaned annually, preferably before the start of the heating season.

6.   Coal shipments in the U.S. strengthened in September as utilities, after a summer of heavy demand for electricity, resupplied inventories in preparation for the winter heating season.

7.   Crude oil prices were little changed as traders awaited an industry report detailing changes in oil inventories before the start of the heating season.

8.   Early in the heating season, refineries were operating flat-out in an effort to rebuild depleted inventories.

9.   Even before the heating season began, the cost of heating oil spiked upward and then retreated.

10.   Energy issues gained on expectations that the winter heating season will be longer than expected, increasing profits of producers of heating fuel.