<prompt> Human: Im renting a house in South County, Rhode Island and we just got our first oil delivery. Theyre charging us at least 0.50 more per gallon than the market price right now. Theyre doing this because my roommate and I are college students and this is our first time renting. How should I approach this? It was a 130 gallon delivery too because the tank hadnt been filled all summer.Edit: We couldnt chose our oil company. The property management company told us we couldnt move in until we set up an account with this specific company.Edit edit: Wow I get back from workschool to this. Thank you so much for the input! Anyway, its too late now for this, but it says in our lease that we must only have oil delivered by this one company and we must have auto delivery. This is strange since my landlord has a separate person who maintains the heating system in the house. In other words, the oil company just delivers the oil and doesnt perform service or anything. Anyway, I called some other local companies and the most expensive pricegallon I got was about 2.45. I plan on talking to some of the off campus administration people at my university about this to see what they say, mainly because Im avoiding studying for this signals and systems midterm. Once again, thank you all so much!Last edit: I am not comparing the price I was charged to the literal cost of a gallon of oil, I am comparing it to what other companies in the area are currently charging. Thank you to the 8 million of you who said the company needs to profit; I had no idea how Capatilism works.Assistant: New Englander here. I just paid 2.14 a gallon to have my tank filled. Each of the three largest home oil delivery services in my area are priced at exactly that. I also took a look at NewEnglandOil.com for Rhode Island Couldnt find a price at 2.75 for any of the four zones of the state. Highest was 2.39, average is 2.14.Do you have a contract signed with this company for delivery over a certain time period? If so, you may have been locked in at a higher price. But even then, Im pretty sure oil was cheaper in the summer. They definitely took advantage of you.Find out if youre under a contract. If youre not, tell that oil company to kick rocks and order from a different company next time. Id also ask rlegaladvice if what the property management company did was legal. Probably not worth perusing any sort of civil suit, but maybe you can file a complaint with the citycounty.Human: We arent under contract because my landlord is switching to electric heat specifically because of how awfully this company has treated past tenants. I thought that maybe we were paying a higher price because we werent in a contract, but even then the price hike seems really excessive.  <response>: if the tank is external it may be rentedprovided from the oil provider hence why you can only use one. 