Every time I go to Lowes or Home Depot im Medford or Lowes in Patchogue, NY I pick up 5 to 10 bags of pellets at $3.74 once, again a real bargain in this region. There are no pellets left in the Patchogue, Medford area at the Big Box Store's. Im told Stonybrook has 90 Pallets. Supposedly they are all getting delivery's in on Monday, heard that all last week. Regardless, I have about 4 tons on hand and can see a major increase in demand in my geographical area. @#ck the oil guys and opec. Im not trying to create my own competition for supply just passing along info. I always try to back fill my supply, to maintain 4 tons. I run 1 stove full time and 1 Part time. I saw a blog on this thread about Stove Chow, I have never had any problems with them and rate them almost good as Hamer's. Booh to Pennington's ans haven't even seen appling County this season(the worst pellet ever)