Anderson Fuel, Inc.

Eighty years on the same road in Scituate. Anderson Fuel works out of 331 Gannett Rd, where — a 2021 Wicked Local article recounts — Arthur Anderson and his brother James came home from the Pacific after World War II and turned their father's small wood-and-coal business into heating oil delivery and service installation. Its BBB file puts the start date at 1946 and the company at 25 employees, categorized under fuel oil. What neighbors say is short and consistent. In a January 2026 Nextdoor thread, a Hull resident wrote that the company had done their install a few years earlier and that they still buy oil and service from it — "they are great." A Scituate neighbor in the same conversation put the name forward on its own. Nobody was selling anything in either comment, which is what makes them worth reading. Beyond that, the company shows up where an established local fuel dealer would: an A+ grade on its BBB profile — that is BBB's own grade, not a customer star average, and the company is not BBB accredited — a listing on the fuel-dealer trade group NEFI's site as a Scituate business, and a 2022 Commonwealth Corporation item naming it alongside other South Shore trade employers. The written trail here is thin next to the tenure: two neighbor comments carry most of it. If you burn oil on the South Shore and want delivery and burner service from one long-lived local shop, this is the kind of name that comes up unprompted. Before booking an installation, pin down exactly what the job covers, get the price in writing, and ask for a couple of recent references on the equipment side.