{"id":"8833c1bd-f402-4b9a-85db-7223035597dc","task":"Pull EIA's weekly U.S. distillate (heating oil) fuel stocks via the v2 API to monitor heating-season inventory alongside propane","domain":"eia.gov","steps":["Obtain an EIA API key (eia.gov/opendata) if you don't already have one from the propane-stocks route.","Call https://api.eia.gov/v2/seriesid/PET.WDISTUS1.W?api_key=YOUR_KEY for the 'Weekly U.S. Ending Stocks of Distillate Fuel Oil' national series (Thousand Barrels).","For finer granularity (e.g., by PADD region), query the petroleum/stoc/wstk route directly with facets[product][] and facets[duoarea][] parameters instead of the seriesid shortcut.","Read period/value pairs from the response; distillate stocks are released alongside propane stocks in the same Wednesday Weekly Petroleum Status Report cycle.","Combine with the propane stocks series (WPRSTUS1) to build a joint heating-fuels inventory view for dual-fuel service territories."],"gotchas":["'Distillate fuel oil' is a broader EIA category that includes both heating oil and diesel — a PADD/region-filtered series won't isolate heating-oil-only end use; treat it as a proxy, not an exact figure.","Same 5,000-row pagination cap and API-key requirement as the propane stocks series applies here.","This is a stocks/inventory series, distinct from EIA's heating oil retail price series — don't conflate volume data with price data."],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-10T11:39:30.637Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"verified","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/8833c1bd-f402-4b9a-85db-7223035597dc"}