It isn’t easy to predict what the price of heating oil is going to be. I mean, you can predict to some extent that its going to go up or going to go down, but making an accurate estimate on home heating oil prices is hard to do. This is why stocking up on oil to try and save money isn’t necessarily the best idea in every case. You really don’t know what might happen. I guess it never hurts to have some extra around, although to be completely honest it probably won’t matter that much because most people aren’t even able to store much of the stuff.