January: The Big Issue

Prices, credit limits, evertightening profit margins, government regulation - not to mention global issues like climate change - are some of the issues distributors have been wrestling with in 2006.

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February: Should oil distributors be doing more?

In January Tesco announced its plans to run threequarters of its distribution fleet on a 50% biodiesel blend, closely followed by Marks & Spencer who went one better, saying its entire distribution fleet is to run on 50% biodiesel as part of its new 'eco-plan.'

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March: Taking all the credit

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery." Wilkins Micawber, in David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.

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April: Carbon offsetting

In pursuit of reversing the amount of carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere
it is necessary to make a shift to low carbon economics. To do this we need to burn less fossil fuel by using energy more efficiently and by switching to renewable energy sources. More information about help to do this can be found on page 30.

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May: Oil distribution via depot and web

After several readers voiced their disappointment at the appearance of an
advertisement for BoilerJuice [February 2007], FON decided to give them and BoilerJuice the chance to air their points of view.

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June: The challenges of supplying software to FODs

About a year ago, BKL Technology, the technology division of Berg Kaprow Lewis, a business which offers a wide range of audit, accountancy, business
strategy and related professional services, was engaged to provide a fuel oil & lubricant distribution business with a new software system to give enhanced stock control, order processing, financial accounting and customer elationship
management.

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