Thomas Siegel has time this morning. The phone only rings twice within an hour. “Lull,” he says. Now, in the Easter holidays, people have other things on their mind than buying heating oil. He doesn’t want to get back behind the wheel of his Mercedes tank truck until the afternoon, when a customer is running out of oil. “Anyone who calls now is urgent because they miscalculated.”
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