Propane @ 99 Cents.
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That's what it was 21 years ago when we moved into this house. Unfortunately we'll never see close that price again as long as we are under control of a monopolized supplier.
Warm_in_NH
Minister of Fire
I was planning to call tomorrow to have my 120 gallon tank filled before prices go up this fall. I'd love to find out that the price is $.99 around here.
Fingers crossed!
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Fingers crossed!
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drz1050
Minister of Fire
$0.86 per gallon here (Saratoga County, NY)
I'm seriously thinking about getting a tank for hot water/ stove..
I'm seriously thinking about getting a tank for hot water/ stove..
My prebuy contract came 2 weeks ago. $1.49.
Lowest price I've seen in 10 years.
Shoulder season may not require as much wood this year.
Lowest price I've seen in 10 years.
Shoulder season may not require as much wood this year.
Warm_in_NH
Minister of Fire
, still not good....
drz1050
Minister of Fire
Crazy how it's that high in NH... I'm not that far away from you, and it's well under $1.00 here.
Knots
Minister of Fire
Knots
Minister of Fire
I own my tank. I poured a concrete slab to keep it from popping up in a flood, anchored it to the slab, put two anodic bags in, and buried it.
No issues so far, and I can shop for propane at different dealers.
Thanks, no issues with the propane people not wanting to fill it. Somewhere I recall hearing they were telling people they didn't know the condition of the tank.
Knots
Minister of Fire
Knots
Minister of Fire
Propane will continue to decrease in price for the foreseeable future because of the over abundance of NG (Propane is made from NG). The country is awash in NG and propane, so much they are actually flaring it off in the oil fields. About time it's become affordable again.
Conversely, processed pellets from tree slash and wood by-products hasn't decreased in price and corn has stabilized here at about $3.70/bu/15%. That makes propane my fuel of choice this winter. I tossed the pre-buy offer on pellets this year. I did fill one grain tank with shelled/cleaned corn for feeding the steers and I may roast some, but, it's much more convienent for bith my wife and I to set the t'stat and allow the Bryant plus 90 to keep us warm. No maintenance to speak of (except a yearly cleaning of the hot surface ignitor and changing the filters in the plenum, something I do monthly anyway.
I use a Lux Clean cycle thermostat (no longer made) to cycle the air through the house every 15 minutes. It evens the temperature out summer and winter and circulates the heat produced by the bio-fuel stove (when I use it)(not this winter....(
I huess commercial pellet producers won't 'feel' any reduction in profit from the decrease in domestic pellet usage simply because they are all (for the most part) geared up to produce pellets for export to the EU to burn as biomass (according to Bio-Fuel magazine).
My issue with that is now, we are cutting domestic forests to provide biofuel to the EU.... Let them cut their own forests. There needs to be some (I hate to say this) some government intervention/controlls placed on the exportation of commercial pellets to the EU. Right now, there is none and it's becoming a BIG industry.
In all my years, I never filled my 3 owned tanks for what I paid yesterday. How refreshing not to be 'enslaved' to a bank breaking expenditure in the wintertime.
Conversely, processed pellets from tree slash and wood by-products hasn't decreased in price and corn has stabilized here at about $3.70/bu/15%. That makes propane my fuel of choice this winter. I tossed the pre-buy offer on pellets this year. I did fill one grain tank with shelled/cleaned corn for feeding the steers and I may roast some, but, it's much more convienent for bith my wife and I to set the t'stat and allow the Bryant plus 90 to keep us warm. No maintenance to speak of (except a yearly cleaning of the hot surface ignitor and changing the filters in the plenum, something I do monthly anyway.
I use a Lux Clean cycle thermostat (no longer made) to cycle the air through the house every 15 minutes. It evens the temperature out summer and winter and circulates the heat produced by the bio-fuel stove (when I use it)(not this winter....(
I huess commercial pellet producers won't 'feel' any reduction in profit from the decrease in domestic pellet usage simply because they are all (for the most part) geared up to produce pellets for export to the EU to burn as biomass (according to Bio-Fuel magazine).
My issue with that is now, we are cutting domestic forests to provide biofuel to the EU.... Let them cut their own forests. There needs to be some (I hate to say this) some government intervention/controlls placed on the exportation of commercial pellets to the EU. Right now, there is none and it's becoming a BIG industry.
In all my years, I never filled my 3 owned tanks for what I paid yesterday. How refreshing not to be 'enslaved' to a bank breaking expenditure in the wintertime.
It's good to have choices and I'm tickled that, for at least some of us to be able to buy propane for heat at a price that seemed a fantasy 2 years ago..
My wife and I can actually go away and not worry about the stove going out and the pipes freezing anymore, what a concept.
My wife and I can actually go away and not worry about the stove going out and the pipes freezing anymore, what a concept.
English BoB
Minister of Fire
Some states allow direct burial, some don't. Ours don't but south of us in Ohio, they doo. Don't matter to me, I own 3. All above ground.
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