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Posted By: papat Just called my propane man - 09/24/21
2.10 a gallon today. More than I have paid for some time.
The world has gone crazy.

$1.19 in summer 2020.

$1.69 in summer 2021.

$1.99 offered for this coming winter.

Thanks Joe.
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Posted By: OldHat Re: Just called my propane man - 09/24/21
Man I paid less than that a month or so ago. I think 1.80. Can't remember now and I threw out the bill
$1047 for 250 gallons yesterday.

$4.19 delivered

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Posted By: Huntz Re: Just called my propane man - 09/24/21
Two summers ago it was.79 cents a gallon.Thanks Joe and Hoe.
Originally Posted by Beaver10
$1047 for 250 gallons yesterday.

$4.19 delivered

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Que the butt sex lube picture.
Posted By: jwp475 Re: Just called my propane man - 09/24/21

Y'all can thank a Biden voter for the higher prices
Originally Posted by jwp475

Y'all can thank a Biden voter for the higher prices

And the non-voters.
Originally Posted by MtnBoomer
Originally Posted by Beaver10
$1047 for 250 gallons yesterday.

$4.19 delivered

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Que the butt sex lube picture.


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That'll work.
Posted By: papat Re: Just called my propane man - 09/24/21
Was 1.50 during the winter last. Joe and Ho at their best
Posted By: mjbgalt Re: Just called my propane man - 09/24/21
Originally Posted by MtnBoomer
Originally Posted by jwp475

Y'all can thank a Biden voter for the higher prices

And the non-voters.


Really? Y'all still think voting matters and they get counted?
Posted By: hanco Re: Just called my propane man - 09/24/21
Originally Posted by wabigoon
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Joe gonna take care of you!!!
Posted By: Redneck Re: Just called my propane man - 09/24/21
Originally Posted by mjbgalt
Originally Posted by MtnBoomer
Originally Posted by jwp475

Y'all can thank a Biden voter for the higher prices

And the non-voters.


Really? Y'all still think voting matters and they get counted?
EXACTLY....
Posted By: killerv Re: Just called my propane man - 09/24/21
My natural gas just went up from 49c a therm to 67, but I got them down to 63.
Posted By: MPat70 Re: Just called my propane man - 09/24/21
Originally Posted by mjbgalt
Originally Posted by MtnBoomer
Originally Posted by jwp475

Y'all can thank a Biden voter for the higher prices

And the non-voters.


Really? Y'all still think voting matters and they get counted?

This 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻
It's just a normal switch over to Communist blend propane.
Build back Better!!
Originally Posted by Redneck
Originally Posted by mjbgalt
Originally Posted by MtnBoomer
Originally Posted by jwp475

Y'all can thank a Biden voter for the higher prices

And the non-voters.


Really? Y'all still think voting matters and they get counted?
EXACTLY....

LOL point taken, my add on was not helpful! There's no way for the bad orange man to win....
Posted By: deflave Re: Just called my propane man - 09/24/21
Get your shots.

Exponential.

In it together.
How many 1000 gallons are you all using?
Originally Posted by BobBrown
How many 1000 gallons are you all using?



We have 1500 gallons of storage at home and 750 at the shop.

Fill them several times a year.
450-500 gpy, winter heat, house only.
Ouch
Posted By: Tarkio Re: Just called my propane man - 09/24/21
$1.79 here just filled the tank at my shop. $1.69 if I get it paid right away.
JEBUS
Posted By: Tarkio Re: Just called my propane man - 09/24/21
Will go through close to 2 tanks (~800 gallons) this winter I expect.

Heating a barn more this winter after hanging a propane heater in there last year.

Our old house, we would go through about 350-400 gallons a year. Our tenants have run through almost twice that at times.
Propane is a White Privilege commodity. What’d you expect? Only Crackers and Boomers (Cracker-Boomers?) are affected.

Nothing to see here.
Heating with propane is virtue signaling or racist. Maybe both
Originally Posted by Pappy348
Propane is a White Privilege commodity. What’d you expect? Only Crackers and Boomers (Cracker-Boomers?) are affected.

Nothing to see here.

“We’re gonna show those deplorable servants!”
Posted By: RJL53 Re: Just called my propane man - 09/24/21
Originally Posted by papat
2.10 a gallon today. More than I have paid for some time.



I'd be happy as hell if I could pay $2.10 a gallon here. Last year we averaged around $3.69, so we will use our wood stove for heat and to hell with those crooks.
Originally Posted by Pappy348
Propane is a White Privilege commodity. What’d you expect? Only Crackers and Boomers (Cracker-Boomers?) are affected.

Nothing to see here.

I like the term Cracker-Boommers.
The propane guy from corpus was up here in Gorda setting up the lines and tanks here, he said he expects it to get over 3. he did give me a 5 hundred gallon tank to build a BBQ pit out of.
Posted By: Dumdum Re: Just called my propane man - 09/24/21

The U.S. propane storage inventory going into the coming winter is very low. Weekly inventory builds going into storage have been very low this year due to multiple causes:

1) mask mandates/social distancing/restricted restaurant seating leading to much more backyard BBQing, cooking at home, outdoor restaurant dining with propane space heaters sucked up propane that normally would have gone into storage

2) Canada has completed one or two pipelines to their Pacific coast and is now shipping nat gas/propane to China. This is product that normally would go to U.S. midwest.

3) Hurricane Ida shut down quite a bit of Gulf oil/gas production and refining. Last I heard there is still a lot shut down.

4) Big increase in propane exports to China .et .al in the last few years to be used as feedstock for plastics manufacuring (PVC, etc). So far they have been price insensitive, willing to pay whatever is needed to get it. I think more than half of U.S. propane production is exported now, whereas 20 years ago very little was shipped out.

If I remember correctly, the wholesale commodity price of propane has gone from something like $0.27/gal in Jan/Feb 2021 to about $1.26/gal now.

The poop will hit the fan this winter if it is extra cold.

Look at the current U.S. oil/gas/propane situation at: www.eia.gov/special/heatingfuels/resources/Propane_Briefing.pdf
It's Time That Those Who Want Heat Pay Their Fair Share!
Might be advantageous to look into some of the bastard gasses at those prices.
150 gallons lasted me 6 years

But I only have my weber genesis plumbed to my 500 gal tank

I heat with hydronic hykory
Propane guy told me China has been buying chit loads of it from different supplyers. The Biden admen. Could stop them but has not so it creates a shortage here.
Fuggin' chiner.
Posted By: victoro Re: Just called my propane man - 09/24/21
I expect a colder than normal winter in Texas maybe as cold as we had last year and predict we'll have the same problems we had last year. One of the big problems we had in Texas (besides wind energy) was that our brilliant state government used a contractor to provide generators for the plants that pumped natural gas to the electricity providers. The contractors didn't have enough generators and I'd bet that the state is still using the same contractor. Every natural gas plant should have their own generator. According to a very credible climate scientist (don't remember his name) we should have several decades of cooler than normal weather.
Posted By: gunzo Re: Just called my propane man - 09/24/21
I've always been against exporting our energy (Oil/gas) as a matter of strategic and national security. Maybe allow a small quota to our allies and as a tool to use as a diplomatic carrot, but otherwise what's found here, stays here.

The recent negative rulings on some of the pipelines throughout the US and from Canada to the gulf coast, won't be helping the long term natural gas prices. But, that's by design from the current administration.
Maybe Biden is in cahoots with China? LOL
Posted By: rem141r Re: Just called my propane man - 09/25/21
get buck strickland on the horn pronto
I signed up for the budget plan several months back. Fixed price on the first 900 gallons. It went from 1.89 last year to 1.99 this year. I have no doubt it is higher now.
Originally Posted by MtnBoomer
Originally Posted by jwp475

Y'all can thank a Biden voter for the higher prices

And the non-voters.


And the rigged Dominion machines.
So whats the excuse the liberals will use for this one. Gas going up was due to demand they say. LP was still used if people stayed home. I dont see a huge spike of demand over 2020. Matter of fact we are getting warming and the climate change should reduce he demand.
You see all the chinese around biden? Those are his advisors from the #CCP.
Posted By: memtb Re: Just called my propane man - 09/25/21

About 4 weeks ago we filled our tank @ $1.72/gal. Just under 600 gallons.......we’re set for a while! memtb
Originally Posted by Dumdum

The U.S. propane storage inventory going into the coming winter is very low. Weekly inventory builds going into storage have been very low this year due to multiple causes:

1) mask mandates/social distancing/restricted restaurant seating leading to much more backyard BBQing, cooking at home, outdoor restaurant dining with propane space heaters sucked up propane that normally would have gone into storage

2) Canada has completed one or two pipelines to their Pacific coast and is now shipping nat gas/propane to China. This is product that normally would go to U.S. midwest.

3) Hurricane Ida shut down quite a bit of Gulf oil/gas production and refining. Last I heard there is still a lot shut down.

4) Big increase in propane exports to China .et .al in the last few years to be used as feedstock for plastics manufacuring (PVC, etc). So far they have been price insensitive, willing to pay whatever is needed to get it. I think more than half of U.S. propane production is exported now, whereas 20 years ago very little was shipped out.

If I remember correctly, the wholesale commodity price of propane has gone from something like $0.27/gal in Jan/Feb 2021 to about $1.26/gal now.

The poop will hit the fan this winter if it is extra cold.

Look at the current U.S. oil/gas/propane situation at: www.eia.gov/special/heatingfuels/resources/Propane_Briefing.pdf



We paid almost exactly a dollar more this year over last.
I was an engineer with a natural gas company. The US has a 47 year supply in Alaska drilled, and capped off. Why, is because they wanted to run a pipeline via the Alaska Highway to tie into Canada's system to transport it to the lower 48. The environmentalists stopped it, even though is was going to run parallel to the Alaska Highway which is already cut and traveled by truckers and tourists in the summer. Makes no sense.

We have an estimated 200 year supply in the lower 48 that needs to be drilled and fracked to extract it. We also have a 200 year supply of shale oil, but it is all on government land out west. We also have an 800 year supply of coal. We can make synthetic oil and gasoline from coal if we wanted too. The environmentalists and liberals have stopped most all mining and drilling now.

Another tid bit. There is enough lithium in the California mountains to make every car in America electric. Again, can't mine it. Elon Musk is mining lithium for his electric car batteries in Nevada.

So no matter what you do, some people are going to be offended. Environmentalists are complaining about wind mills killing birds and looking ugly when they look offshore where they are building some.

Elon Musk also said that a 100 mile by 100 mile array of solar panels put in the Nevada, New Mexico, or Utah desert could power the entire US in the daytime and have power left over to store somehow for night use if enough batteries banks could be built.

Another tid bit. Exxon can make synthetic oil and gas out of algae oil grown in greenhouses that would only cover an area the size of Rhode Island. However, this oil would cost about $4 a gallon to produce. So, that is not cost effective yet, but the algae would take CO2 out of the atmosphere, but burning it would put it right back, so it is "carbon neutral".

Lots of stuff being worked on, but ALL energy sources should be on the table, not just "green energy", in order to keep consumer costs down.

Musk also has worked out a way called the Sabatier process, developed by a French chemist to make natural gas for rocket fuel out of CO2 from the air and water. It is slow and requires electricity to split the CO2 into carbon and oxygen and split the water into hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen is liquified to put into the rocket and the carbon and hydrogen are combined to make natural gas or methane, which is also liquified for rocket fuel.

I think solar panels should be on roofs, on top of buildings, and built over parking lots all around the country to provide daytime electrical needs. WInd energy should be designed to not kill birds, especially migratory birds. They have designed vertical windmills. Any excess electricity could be used to make synthetic natural gas to run generators at night using the Sabatier process. This might be better than trying to manufacture batteries. Excess gas could be pumped back into dry wells or liquified for night use.
Originally Posted by papat
2.10 a gallon today. More than I have paid for some time.


You must be new to the propane world. Everyone knows to buy in July/August. I paid 1.25 in July.
Take a look at exports to Japan, China, Mexico and Korea. https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/PET_MOVE_EXPC_A_EPLLPA_EEX_MBBLPD_M.htm
Posted By: Dumdum Re: Just called my propane man - 09/26/21

Excerp from:

https://www.barchart.com/story/news/2461058/can-you-say-crisis-the-energy-report-09242021


“We warned about propane inventories yesterday. They are 21% below the five-year average and we may see shortages of supplies. When winter comes rolling in, there’s going to be a huge competition for pipeline space. Refiners desperately need butane to add to their winter blends of gasoline versus propane buyers that will need supply to sell to distributors. However it plays out, the one thing we know for sure, it’s going to be very expensive. “

Propane dealers (that sell directly to end users like homeowners and farmers) have been strongly encouraged to pre-fill/top up everybody’s tank possible ASAP to avoid the coming winter pipeline congestion/competition.
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