The mild winter has some energy providers seeing red.

Not many people are filling up on home heating oil and workers are feeling the burn.

"It's a double-edged sword," said Michael Harned, owner of Harner-Durham Energy.  "I don't want to be the mean oil marketer here but we employ 25-30 people here and we want to see that they all have a job and they all survive."

Each day Harned looks at the thermometer by his window.

He's been tracking the temperature and says it's the warmest he's seen in four years.

"Losing 20 percent of your business just due to that and then conservation because the prices are as high as they are," said Harned.

In order to balance the books in the rough time, Harned has been keeping an eye on overtime, monitoring the hours of temporary workers and allowing workers to take their time instead of rushing from job to job.

"I can't fault them for that," added Harned.  "They want to fill out at least a 40-hour week when they are used to all that overtime."

Harned-Durham Energy has trucks out on the road filling up oil tanks, but Michael Harned says some of his other business this winter has come from helping customers save money.

"We're putting in clock thermostats that type of thing," said Harned.

Harned says he has one wish: a good prediction from a Puxnatawny Phil.

"He sees his shadow, that's six more weeks of winter and that's a minimum," said Harned, "Because we haven't had any weeks as far as I'm concerned."

That could mean cold temps and more business.