The value of my wood just went up again.
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This is so my luck. I took care of my fuel oil problem of burning 2000 gals a winter by installing a Garn. Been successful with that enterprise since 2010 and am turning a profit now. Still kept the oil boiler and the 1000 gal tank is full for back up or to fill my tractors if necessary. Then I have a 550 gal old anhydrous ammonia tank that I have used for years. (its from the 1950s) Last time I filled it up was 2005. It is now about empty - have a fireplace insert and a Generac generator on it. The generator has used most of that gas.
Problem is, they refuse to fill my anhydrous tank again because it is not labeled for propane. More government BS. Anyway, they will only set a 125 gal tank for me because I don't burn much. I want capacity for long interruptions in electricity. I planned to buy a 1000 gal tank and fill it when I run out (expecting that to be in April). Naturally, propane spikes to a high in the year I need to do this. I expected to spend 2k on a used propane tank and 2k on the propane. Now I will probably just buy the tank and buy a little propane.
Also, farmers used 12% of the nations propane drying a wet and large crop. We personally used 15,000 gallons, we burned 1000 last year because of drought and 16,000 gallons the year before that. I call BS on farmers getting the blame for the shortages. The extremely cold winter has 100x the effect than farmers burning gas to dry corn.
Problem is, they refuse to fill my anhydrous tank again because it is not labeled for propane. More government BS. Anyway, they will only set a 125 gal tank for me because I don't burn much. I want capacity for long interruptions in electricity. I planned to buy a 1000 gal tank and fill it when I run out (expecting that to be in April). Naturally, propane spikes to a high in the year I need to do this. I expected to spend 2k on a used propane tank and 2k on the propane. Now I will probably just buy the tank and buy a little propane.
Also, farmers used 12% of the nations propane drying a wet and large crop. We personally used 15,000 gallons, we burned 1000 last year because of drought and 16,000 gallons the year before that. I call BS on farmers getting the blame for the shortages. The extremely cold winter has 100x the effect than farmers burning gas to dry corn.
I have read that 5 times the normal amount of LP was used to dry the crops last fall. They need to figure out a way to store more propane in the northern states to buffer the demand when needed. It's not all on the farmers of course, the unusually cold winter just broke the camels back. It's not the farmers fault. Maybe they need tanks like you see at the refineries to keep more on hand instead of relying on the delivery just in time model now used?
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