Now they're rationing LP keep those stoves going!

[BrotherBart]

The largest gas pipeline from the Gulf Coast to the NE runs eight miles from my house. And no NG available here either.

 

[WiscWoody]

BTW- I only took 200 gallons in May instead of a 85% fill cuz they were thinking the price for LP would go down to $.99 a gallon like the summer of 2012 but it didn't go that low last year.

 

[begreen]

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I had to go look at my receipts. It looks like I paid $1.389 on 5/01/2013 and then $1.209 on 7/26/2013. The good old days...lol this is gas I use now and will do a summer fill again in July.

We haven't seen $1.39 since the late 1990s here. $1.20 is our 1995 price.

 

[tfdchief]

And I hate it as hot as we keep it BUT my wife has arthritis and she has health issues and the cold makes cry if it is even at 76.

Yep/. For those who thinks 76 is too hot. Well, there is a time when I would have agreed. But now, with my wife having had Rheumatoid Arthritis for 20 years, and now I have been recently diagnosed with the same thing, well, heat feels good and cold hurts, so 76 is a good number for us. Hope you all who think 76 is too hot, I hope you never get old or have arthritis.

 

[tfdchief]

I just paid double what I paid a month ago, to fill a 20 pound propane bottle.

 

[WiscWoody]

Well yes, there may come a day that I would have to get used to it.

 

[tfdchief]

Well yes, there may come a day that I would have to get used to it.

Or need it. Hope you never do. But for those of us who do, wood heat is a blessing.

 

[robertmcw]

Well, I am not a fortune teller but I feel (and hope) the prices will go back down in the spring, before the crops need propane to dry the corn and other grains and veggies they need to dry and before summer hits for a/c customers. I think I enough for about 3 months before I need a new fill-up as we use propane for a back-up for the heater and we use it for cooking and hot water and heat for the greenhouse as needed. This May, I may ask a supplier to price a 2000 bulk order (they hold it unit I need to use it) looking at buy a contact this year to lock the prices in for the next few years.


Keep your powder dry and keep your propane tanks full.


Robert

 

[Ehouse]

Living it here in Pa. But for me, the pop density just isn't high enough here for the lines to be run.

The way it has been pitched up here, we'll all have access. Schools, Buses, heating etc.. very rural here too. I doubt it.

 

[begreen]

Or need it. Hope you never do. But for those of us who do, wood heat is a blessing.

Good point. Our cat agrees 100% with you chief.

 

[Retired Guy]

He might have associated the two gases saying there's a NG shortage but today I read about a NG pipeline explosion in the Midwest that has reduced capacity when we need it in this deep freeze we are having.

(broken link removed to http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/289767/)

Explosion was in Manatoba

 

[Retired Guy]

We have been paying close to $4.00/gal for years. Cooking and HW only.

 

[jharkin]

It wasn't a thermostat issue, there was some sort of problem with a regulator or something on the actual unit itself. I'm not familiar with the system, but it took them a few days to get the part, and then they had a different issue with it.

Probably the high limit aquastat died if its a forced hot water boiler. Or the pressuretrol went bad if its steam. Either situation would allow it to overheat/overpressure before shutting down on the thermostat setpoint.

 

[robertmcw]

I was stunned when I went by AmeriGas in Tomball, Texas, today and they said they are selling propane at $3.00 a gallon.

Robert

 

[WiscWoody]

I was stunned when I went by AmeriGas in Tomball, Texas, today and they said they are selling propane at $3.00 a gallon.

Robert

That would be stunning up here too if it were that cheap right now!

 

[JustWood]

Neighbor just got a delivery yesterday. Saw him today and asked how much. $2.20/gal

 

[WiscWoody]

That's pretty reasonable right now!

 

[harttj]

N.w Ohio. Guy at work asked about my system. Gave him all the information and asked why. He just paid $5.82 per gallon. $500 only got 85 gallons. That is crazy.

 

[mipellet1]

wow I could use a few gallons more to back up my new pellet stove I installed almost two months ago hot water Is still on it but I don't have much in my tank just in case the stove goes down I think I gong to make that call now and see what it is here.

 

[mipellet1]

just called 3.68 glad I bought a stove this December

 

[B-Mod]

$7 in parts of WI....

 

[granpajohn]

...CO2 poisoning.

CO please.

 

[WiscWoody]

Yes, I checked and they are saying up to $7 a gallon in Wisconsin if you can get it. It's been below zero up here every night for most of the winter. We need a break from it soon!

 

[B-Mod]

I am getting use to the cold it is the wind and the cold that make it nasty, lol. They are talking cold for at least another 2 weeks for sure. It's been a weird winter here, very cold, lot's of snow, but no big snow storms, are biggest storm was last week when we got about 9", but it was the fluffy type snow.

 

[WiscWoody]

I am getting use to the cold it is the wind and the cold that make it nasty, lol. They are talking cold for at least another 2 weeks for sure. It's been a weird winter here, very cold, lot's of snow, but no big snow storms, are biggest storm was last week when we got about 9", but it was the fluffy type snow.

Same up here, no storms but snow falls here and there and we have plenty now! i kept the roof of my "garage in a box" cleared for awhile but then it was too deep on the sides to get to it so it went down today. Usually you can count on a thaw here and there but this winter there hasn't been any. One for the books.. lol