Propane soars... By scooter49 (Read 503 times)

[scooter49]

Propane is what some Americans heat their homes with. We bought a 100 gallons in November for $214.. Early January we bought another 100 gallons- $350.. Now it is $400 for 100 gallons. It is all over the Midwest sold propane to Europe and now running short. They are rationing too- a 100 gallon max order is all propane we can buy. It appears to me, that the propane company knew they would run short, thus creating a price increase for propane, thus we make our propane companies more wealthy. Shoot, we can use electric heat cheaper. This affects me from spending much money on other things- like replacing a tire on scoot, putting gas in scoot, paying for Class M permit, saving for 49cc scooter, ect.. Even Walmart has sold out of electric heaters in this area. It is bad. This royally stinks.. We will switch to electric heaters and close off rooms this month. Can't afford $400 a wack..

[cyborg]

Ouch with a Capitol O

[tvnacman]

What is the historic low temp where you are ?

Do you have a lake or pond near ?

Almost 30 years in HVAC here .

John

[cyborg]

Me? The low low I've seen was mid 20's geez must have been 20-25 years ago snowed that year too Jan or feb but I've seen mid 80's to low 90's in those months too ,,, it was 80-85 last week,,, I live just north of Los Angeles

[cyborg]

I was running the air in my truck,,,the rest of the country was getting blasted by that bad storm

[scooter49]

Well, low this Wednesday is suppost to drop to negative 2.. The record lows are about negative 20.. Average highs are in 20's and 30's... But this winter, about every week, it dips to around 0.. It has already been a crazy winter without having to pay double or more, for propane. Knowing the prices are soaring around $4 per gallon, well it would be about $5 per gallon by the time our tank runs to 10%.

[tvnacman]

You can get some benefit from heat pump however it will cost you for the equipment .

www.friedrich.com/products/residential/window/breeze/model-specifications

They will make heat into the teens , it can get you off propane most of the time . There are other systems that will work - degrees , but come at a much higher price .

John

[randy]

I have an all electric home and have been heating with baseboard heat. Last month was frigid I havent seen 32* in over a month. our bill for January was $248 and I don't think that was bad at all. I run my heat in the garage {Fan forced electric} at 50 air compressor plus normal activites in the house. To me the only downside to the baseboard heat in no central air conditioning and wifey complains about furniture location at times. The electric company gives us a better billing rate because we heat with electric.

[cyborg]

$248 isn't bad at all,,,geez thats about what i pay and i haven't turned my heater on in 5 years at least

[rapidjim]

For the past 7 years or so I have always contracted with my propane company in August to buy 1200 gals of fuel during the winter months. Between summer and winter the price fluxuates and has saved me as much a a dollar a gallon. They bill me everytime they fill instaed of all of it up front. Last August, I contracted for 1200 gallons @ $1.549. Sure paying off now, propane cost today is $4.449 a gallon. My supplier says it is coming down, was almost $6 a gallon a few weeks ago. I still have 540 gallons left on my contract so I should be fine for this year unless we have a longer winter than last year.

[Alleyoop]

What a winter, and CA is dry we should ship some of our snow over to them. We again got dumped on yesterday overnight woke up and had another over 6 inchs of snow. We got piles and piles of snow and windchills in the minus.
Alleyoop

[mike6736]

WOW! I guess you have to put your snow shoes on to walleye dog... LOL

Magoo

[cyborg]

we had a little spritz couple days ago,,,and supposed to get more rain later today,,again a little last nite but nothing to put a dent in this drought we're having,,,it's drier than a popcorn fart out here,,,we sure could use a good dousing for a couple days

[Deleted]

here in Michigan its been in the low teens all the way down to -10 in the last month. only 2 or 3 days over 25. using fuel oil here. $3.66 a gallon. go thru about 3-4 gals a day.