Propane Cost???

[ultrarunner]

My Mom is 93 and draws $880 a month Social Security. She burns 250 gallon per month propane thru the coldest 2 or 3 months. If she didn't have her three kids to subsidize her she'd be forced to move out of her house and into assisted care living.

Many in the same situation...

Just got off the phone with my supplier.

They topped off the tank with 140 gallons on a 1000 gallon tank!

Said they were checking all their customers.

Price is at an all time high.

South Lake Tahoe

 

[SandburRanch]

Kansas Wholesale Propane Price is at a current level of 2.665, down from 4.06 last week.

Mont Belvieu Tx wholesale fob Feb. 10 was $1.695

 

[varmint]

Don't know if anyone has mentioned this, since I only read the last few pages of this thread, but I noticed that one factor in this current propane "shortage" is the fact that about 20% of our domestic gas was sold/exported. World market prices are much higher than domestic. So, they want to screw up the environment with their fracking... to export more gas. Our prices could level out at the world price, which will hurt.

 

[SSdoxie]

My propane started out 1st of Nov. @ $1.90, Dec was @ $2.10, Jan @ $2.50, this month was $3.90. Had been getting 200 gl. each month. After this last bill, I removed 1 space heater and put wood stove back in. In past 3 years it had never gone over $1.50 gl. I have Natural Gas going past the house, put in about 4 years ago, but converting wasn't high on the priority list when Propane was $1.50 or less. Guess who will be hooked up to NG this summer :thumbsup: Of course next there will be a "shortage" of NG because so many switched over.

 

[k0ua]

My propane started out 1st of Nov. @ $1.90, Dec was @ $2.10, Jan @ $2.50, this month was $3.90. Had been getting 200 gl. each month. After this last bill, I removed 1 space heater and put wood stove back in. In past 3 years it had never gone over $1.50 gl. I have Natural Gas going past the house, put in about 4 years ago, but converting wasn't high on the priority list when Propane was $1.50 or less. Guess who will be hooked up to NG this summer :thumbsup: Of course next there will be a "shortage" of NG because so many switched over.

NG here is still a half a mile away, and they say it might be some years before we get it.. I wish it went by the house right now.

 

[rekees4300]

2009 they installed a 24" NG pipeline almost in our back yard. Problem is the gas is going from Rockies to the East Coast. Everybody in between is just out of luck. Oh, almost forgot, some guy in western Indiana tried to tap into it. He wasn't heard from after that. Made a crater 10 feet deep!

 

[k0ua]

2009 they installed a 24" NG pipeline almost in our back yard. Problem is the gas is going from Rockies to the East Coast. Everybody in between is just out of luck. Oh, almost forgot, some guy in western Indiana tried to tap into it. He wasn't heard from after that. Made a crater 10 feet deep!

Take your porta torch out there and cut a little hole in there and screw in a pipe nipple.. of course you really don't need to worry about the pipe nipple:laughing:

 

[bandaidmd]

3.19 last week on my accts in Md.

 

[Looking4new]

My neighbour just paid $0.80/L which equals about $3.02/US gallon

 

[coobie]

Beats me, I've cut and split and burns great. The ice storm in 2009 took down some pecan trees and we finally found someone to take them. They only did so because they were in an open pasture just off the main road and we had to clean up after them.

A couple of years ago a couple of guys agreed to take an Oak tree that had fallen on a field road. They cut a little while drinking some beers and left never to return, I eventually just pushed it out of the way were it still lies.

WOW.Same thing here I have offered free wood to folks to heat with and NO TAKERS.Maybe when they get there propane bills things will change.LOL