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And I'm Toby Howell.

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Today, New Englanders are going to see their heating bills go way up this winter.

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What does your dream home include? For me, it's a baby grand piano and an indoor basketball court. But for an increasing number of people, they aspire to have a Costco door.

According to the Washington Post, a number of aspiring homeowners are asking builders to add a Costco door to their house to make hauling in their bulk Kirkland purchases that much easier. What is a Costco door? You ask. It is a small door, maybe two by two feet, that connects directly from a garage into a pantry or kitchen, offering a time and back saving shortcut. It's blowing up in the suburbs. One home builder in Utah told the Post that about half of his customers asked for a Costco door once they see one.

Toby Howell (1:25)

See, I come from the old fashion school of unloading groceries where you gotta do everything in one trip. Costco door kids will never know the pain or the glory associated with loading up 53 pounds of food on your arms and staggering through the front door. In general though, I think I'm pro Costco door, not because it makes unloading easier, but because great escape hatch and playing hide and go seek. If you hide in the pantry and then if the heat starts to get too hot for you, you just slip out through the back into the garage. So for that reason, I'm in on Costco doors.

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New England is about to get colder than the Red Sox in the Wild Card Series, but staying cozy has gotten a lot more expensive. This winter, home heating oil prices are expected to jump 34% from last winter as a result of the energy crunch from the war in Iran. That projection from the Energy Information Administration's annual Winter Fuels Outlook shows how conflicts abroad are hitting the literal home for 4.1 million American households who use heating oil to keep warm in the colder months, the vast majority of them in New England. Heating oil prices largely track diesel, which you know has gone bonkers from the supply squeeze in the Gulf and in Russia. But while diesel raises prices for anything that gets transported, heating oil bills will knock household budgets at a time when broader inflation is still higher than normal. The average household using heating oil is projected to spend over $2,100 from November through March, according to the EIA.

The good news, not that many Americans heat their home with oil anymore. About 3% do compared to 45% using natural gas and 43% using electricity. And households using natural gas are projected to see their heating bill fall 9% this winter compared to last, while electricity customers will see a smaller 4% bump. That's cold comfort for millions in New England, where the surging cost of heat homes has emerged a hot bun political issue ahead of the midterms, particularly in Maine. In that state, heating oil prices have jumped to a record 5.96 a gallon, up roughly 80% from last year.