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Mark Issenberg on thu 25 sep 97

Hey Clayarters: Just out of curiosity. How much is everybody out there
paying for propane. I am paying $1.35 a gallon. How much is it out
west. How much is it in Canada?

Mark in Miami

Richard Aerni on fri 26 sep 97

Mark,

At the moment, in upstate NY, I am paying about .$80 per gallon. I say
at the moment, because I have a rate which is dependent upon the price at
the refinery. I pay $.33 above the rate at some point in Texas (Port
Hilton?) which is the departure point to up north, I think. I was paying
rates similar to yours and finally started calling around. When I got
one company to give me a bid way lower, I called the old company and told
them to pull my tanks (2 1000 gallon tanks). They got a bit upset and
wondered why, I told them they'd been taking advantage of my naivete in
regards to propane prices, and I'd gotten a far better deal, so there.
What was the other company's bid, they inquired, saying they would beat
it. No way, I replied, they gave it to me in good faith and if you want
to give me a competitive bid, fine, but I'm not going to put them at a
disadvantage. Well, they came in with their proposal which beat the
other company's. My rate still fluctuates, having gone from around $.59
to .95 per gallon over the years, based upon supply and demand, the
orientation of the planets, whether the Gas King needs a new mansion, etc
(I really can't figure out the reasons why). But I did save about
$1500.00 the first year with the "New Deal".

Perhaps you should start to call around. BTW, it also helps when you can
call and tell them what amount you will be using, and helps further when
that amount is in the multiple thousands of gallons.

Good luck,

Richard Aerni
Bloomfield, NY


Mark Issenberg wrote:
>
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Hey Clayarters: Just out of curiosity. How much is everybody out there
> paying for propane. I am paying $1.35 a gallon. How much is it out
> west. How much is it in Canada?
>
> Mark in Miami

Malissa D on fri 26 sep 97

Mark:
I am paying $1.00 per gallon for propane in the Texas hill country where
the weather is cool and wonderful.

Malissa Driggers
EarthWorks
Earth@tstar.net
Texas

Mark Issenberg wrote:
>
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Hey Clayarters: Just out of curiosity. How much is everybody out there
> paying for propane. I am paying $1.35 a gallon. How much is it out
> west. How much is it in Canada?
>
> Mark in Miami

Craig Martell on fri 26 sep 97

At 06:42 AM 9/25/97 EDT, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Hey Clayarters: Just out of curiosity. How much is everybody out there
>paying for propane. I am paying $1.35 a gallon. How much is it out
>west. How much is it in Canada?
>
>Mark in Miami


Hey Mark:

$.99/Gal. from Mac Gas in McMinnville, Oregon.......Craig Martell-Oregon

Baker/Orion on fri 26 sep 97

Mark:

In March we paid .895/gallon
In July we paid .875/gallon (2 cents less/gallon)
Today it's back up to .895/gallon.

We're at Glacier, Washington, 2 hrs north of Seattle. We have use a 500
gallon tank and therefore qualify for "volume prices," which probably makes
a big difference. Another factor in our favor is having four oil
refineries within a 90-minute drive -- fuel transpiration costs are lower
here, maybe.

Ellen Baker, Orion Ceramic Studios
orion@telcomplus.com

Ric Swenson on fri 26 sep 97

At 6:42 AM -0400 9/25/97, Mark Issenberg wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Hey Clayarters: Just out of curiosity. How much is everybody out there
>paying for propane. I am paying $1.35 a gallon. How much is it out
>west. How much is it in Canada?
>
>Mark in Miami
----------------

Hi Mark.....


Commodity prices fluxuate daily. If bought by the tanker-load, the current
price, FOB Selkirk, N.Y. pipeline terminal, (from Texas) near Albany,
New York is about $0.54 per gallon, today... plus about $.03/gallon for
transportation to Bennington from Selkirk ( about 60 miles away) (Just
got a quote from Global Gas, a few minutes ago). BTW... HD-5 grade of
propane is common here.

If you had an 18,000 gallon tank (purchase 'used' at about $20 grand) and
a vaporizor (also costly) and needed that much gas in a reasonable amount
of time...it might work. Tankers carry 9,200 gallons typically.

More realistically....a 'group purchase' might work. 20 potters get
together and 'shop' for the vendor that will give you a 10 or 15% discount
on propane. BUT, watch for Complications with issues like "who owns the
tank?" Most companies "loan" you the tank..you pay for its' use with every
gallon you pay $1.35 for...of course. Small deliveries of 100-200 gallons
cost those gas companies a lot in driver time....so you pay more there too.
If you had a co-op that could buy in bulk and have a tanker deliver to 3 or
4 spots...into 5,000 gallon tanks...you could save money.

Since reagan and deregulation of prices...was it 15 years ago already?? the
market is open to people making deals...might be worth exploring...if you
have some purchasing power...power in numbers.

Just some thoughts ..

what a gas.

Ric

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bokar on fri 26 sep 97

I'm in the midwest (Missouri) and am just ordering approximately
200 to 300 gallons at 45 cents a gallon. This past winter I paid $1.19
a gallon. One must try to fill up in the summer-time to get the
best price. Could use a 10,000 gallon tank instead of my 500 gallon
tank
to get the best price. "You guys" don't have to fork out too much $$$
for
heat down there, why are they gouging you so much, eh?

If gas goes backwards, it's sag.

Best regards,
Bo

Mark Issenberg wrote:

> ----------------------------Original
> message----------------------------
> Hey Clayarters: Just out of curiosity. How much is everybody out
> there
> paying for propane. I am paying $1.35 a gallon. How much is it out
> west. How much is it in Canada?
>
> Mark in Miami

Peggy Heer on fri 26 sep 97

Hi Mark..here in Alberta Canada I paid/pay $12.00 per 20 LBS canaster.
As Always Peggy


>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Hey Clayarters: Just out of curiosity. How much is everybody out there
>paying for propane. I am paying $1.35 a gallon. How much is it out
>west. How much is it in Canada?
>
>Mark in Miami

Peggy Heer / Heer Pottery E-Mail p4337@connect.ab.ca
52120 Range Road 223
Sherwood Park, AB. Canada T8C 1A7
Phone (403) 922-6270
http://www.ffa.ucalgary.ca/artists/pheer/

Jon Lovejoy on fri 26 sep 97

I'm in Orange County, CA (where everything costs more than it should) and I'm
paying $1.80/gal.

Jon in Mission Viejo, where it's been raining hard all day from Hurricane
Nora.

Malone & Dean McRaine on fri 26 sep 97

Propane just hit $1.95 a gallon on Kauai, good thing the touristas got lots
of pesos for my pots.
Dean

bobbiesm on fri 26 sep 97

At 06:42 AM 9/25/97 EDT, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Hey Clayarters: Just out of curiosity. How much is everybody out there
>paying for propane. I am paying $1.35 a gallon. How much is it out
>west. How much is it in Canada?
>
>Mark in Miami
>
Mark, I am in Melbourne, Fl and paying 43 cents a gallon.
Bobbie

Dave Eitel on sat 27 sep 97

Here in S.E. Wisconsin I just paid 73 cents, which is twice what it was a
year ago.

Later...Dave

Dave Eitel
Cedar Creek Pottery
Cedarburg, WI
pots@cedarcreekpottery.com
http://www.cedarcreekpottery.com

VICTOR JOHNSTON on sat 27 sep 97

Just thought I'd throw my two cents worth in.

In preparations for building a kiln I checked around and found that prices
varied quite a bit. The best price I found was for (for a 200 gal tank, I
think it was) $30.00 a year lease on the tank and $.75 a gal. for propane.
I was also told (as, it seems, have most others) that the price could
fluctuate.


Vic Johnston from Ogden, UT where the usual sunshine seems to have
turned liquid lately.

Laura Freedman on sat 27 sep 97

I am in south central PA and we pay $5.80-8.00 per fill up for a 20
POUND tank, depending where i fill up. If I'm right, there is about 4.2
gallons to a pound which would make the 20 pounder about 5 gallons. So I
pay $1.00 - 1.60 per gallon. lauras@epix.net
--
MZ

Keith Chervenak on sat 27 sep 97

Hi Mark,

I just called today to have my 500 gallon tank filled. Current price is
$.90 per gallon. This is just a tease though because by January when I
really need it (ie. heat my house) it will have jumped to $1.25-$1.35, if
last year is any indicator.

Keith

in Cleveland where the blue skies are being rocked by the Blue Angels;
practicing maneuvers for this weekends airshow

Keith Chervenak
kac2@po.cwru.edu
216-368-4944
Case Western Reserve University
Department of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
Cleveland, Ohio U.S.A.

Richard Harris on sat 27 sep 97

bobbiesm wrote:
>
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> At 06:42 AM 9/25/97 EDT, you wrote:
> >----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> >Hey Clayarters: Just out of curiosity. How much is everybody out there
> >paying for propane. I am paying $1.35 a gallon. How much is it out
> >west. How much is it in Canada?
> >
> >Mark in Miami
> >
in most of Saskatchewan, in western Canada, it is 39.9 cents per liter,
so i imagine that works out to about $1.60 per u.s. gallon

Michelle
(who has a propane fuelled truck, but fires in electric)

Ditmar/Gayle on sat 27 sep 97

Hello from another part of Alohaland,

I envy Kauai............they only pay $1.95 a gallon !!!!
Just got my gas bill for the last delivery at $2.42 a gallon.
The law of supply and demand. The gas company supplies you with it, and
then they demand a ridiculous price.
Ditmar

Bill Aycock on sat 27 sep 97

In uch of the area I am familliar with, Propane prices are fairly
competitive, and therefore vary with the season, and the amount of usage.
The tanks (the sizes that are semi-permantly in place) arte usually
"leased", and for a relatively small fee, considering the investment. The
lease agreement usually has an "exclusive" clause in it, that prohibits you
from getting gas from another dealer. In other word, the dealer is blocking
you from shopping around, by almost giving you the tank.

The "base" price locally seems to be about $1.00 a gallon. This is NOT the
average price, but a reference point to calculate from. If you have a very
regular account, and pay cash, it goes down as much as 20%. (ie, about
$0.80). This is what I pay in the winter, and early summer.

There is a peculiar factor that puts the possibility of another saving in
play in the summer, when the heating load is low. The local tank storage
system is finite, and the local dealer is often pressured to buy in the
summer ("top up his tanks") by the source, who has all his tanks full,
also. shutting a refinery down because there is no place to put the gas is
expensive- therefore, the people all down the line do what they can to get
gas in ALL storage, including the one outside your house. The end result is
that there may be "mid summer" specials.

A comment about the situation with regard to the "twenty pound bottle"
often used for BarBeQue grills and small Raku kilns. Most of the cost
(about $8-15 is common) is in the "service" part of the job. The gas is
about $3.00, the service charge is the rest. A part of this is fair,
because it does need special equipment, but much of it is just because
people dont question it.

BTW- any cooks out there- if you use electricity, instead of gas, for
cooking, you are missing something.

Bill, being very opinionated, here on the (Persimmon) Hill
Bill Aycock --- Persimmon Hill --- Woodville, Alabama, US 35776
--- (in the N.E. corner of the State) ---
also -- W4BSG -- Grid EM64vr
baycock@hiwaay.net

John Baymore on mon 29 sep 97

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......snip.......

Hey Clayarters: Just out of curiosity. How much is everybody out there
paying for propane. I am paying =241.35 a gallon. How much is it out
west. How much is it in Canada?

........clip.........

Mark,

Wow. You must have read my mind. Just the other day I was thinking (as
the tank was being filled (g) ) I ought to ask this question on the list
just to make sure that I was in the normal ballpark for the US and the
region. Propane just keeps going up and up on a steady slow climb.

I am now paying =241.31 gal. here in southern NH.

On the bigger scale of things, firing costs are pretty small relative to
the volume of wares in a kiln load. Wish I could get my time costs for
paperwork and accounting, correspondence, marketing, packing, materials
handling and so on down ......... that for me seems far, far more
expensive. The propane bill still looks large though when you pay it (g),
usually cause you don't pay by the firing, you pay for a whole bunch of
firings all at once. Easy to forget all those pots that you fired (g).

Those of us here in America on this list have a tendency to take low fuel
costs for granted and expect them to continue. Many other countries are
not so lucky. The US is just headed toward more equity in the cost of
fossil fuels.

I don't have to like it....... but that is the way it is, and probably as
it should be.

Best,

.......................john

John Baymore
River Bend Pottery
22 Riverbend Way
Wilton, NH 03086 USA

603-654-2752
JBaymore=40Compuserve.com

Mark Issenberg on mon 29 sep 97

Hey Clayarters: Thanks for giving me the info on propane prices. I do
own my own tanks. I'm real happy I'm not buying propane in Hawaii. I am
hoping to move to No. Georgia. So, I guess the prices will be better
than here and I'm probably going to get a 1000 gallon or at least a 500,
probably buried.

I still have my Alpine 24 for sale and I've been selling jackfruits for
$2.00 a pound and some of the them are almost 30 lbs a piece. My friend
Mike says they look like the "pods" from the movie "The Body Snatchers."
:D Cutting a 30 pound fruit off a tree on top of a ladder is a feat.

Getting ready to go to Chattanooga. Hopefully, I've got enough pots.
five loads worth. Maybe I'll see some of you up there.

Mark in Miami

George Mackie on wed 1 oct 97

From recent postings, the prices vary across N. America thus: ( I have
converted everything to Canadian cents per litre):
Wisconsin 27
Utah 28
Alabama 30-37
Ohio 33-48
Pennsylvania 37-60
Saskatchewan 40
Victoria, B.C. 46
New Hampshire 49
Hawaii 74-90

George

Kathy on fri 3 oct 97

Propane prices have gone wayyyyyyyy up here!
I live in southern Manitoba about 50 miles from the US border
and i pay about 1.86 a gallon....when i first built my kiln
10 years ago it was about 46 cents a gallon.

Needless to say I have a nat gas kiln and the propane one
functions as an extra......

Kathy

mel jacobson on fri 20 aug 99

again.
in wisconsin.
summer prices at 63 cents a gallon.
that is my best price...i negotiate.
it goes to almost a dollar in december.
mel.mn
http://www.pclink.com/melpots
from minnetonka, minnesota, u.s.a.

Carole Fox on tue 26 jun 01


Dear friends,

I received a newsletter from my propane company containing a chart of =
price projections for propane over the next ten years. This chart shows =
a decrease in prices until 2003, then a slight increase for 2004-5, down =
again in 2006, up 2007, steady for 2008 and then a gradual increase =
2009-10. The good news is that the projected prices never reach the high =
level they did in 2001. The source of this information is the US Dept. =
of Energy.

How reliable are these projections? I don't have a clue. And what =
information are they based on? Beats me! Just thought this information =
might be interesting to some on the list.


Carole Fox- on a hot, hot day in sunny Elkton, MD
cfox@dca.net

Stephen Grimmer on fri 29 jun 01


Terry,
I thought natural gas was closer to 1000 Btu per cubic foot. What gives?
Steve

--
Stephen Grimmer
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale


> From: Terry Sullivan
> Reply-To: Ceramic Arts Discussion List
> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 16:59:16 EDT
> To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
> Subject: Re: Propane prices
>
> Using the figures from standard btu charts [ propane at 2158 btu / gal. and
> natural gas. 2488 / cu. ft ]

Earl Brunner on fri 29 jun 01


Being right next door to California, what we end up paying for energy
here in Las Vegas is subject to some of the same cost problems that they
are experiencing. Our natural gas company just got approval to raise
gas prices 25% affective right away. They chose to do this in the
summer naturally when residential gas consumption is low, and will be
insignificant on current bills. This winter when the actual increase
begins to be reflected in our bills, the rate increase will have been
several months old and they hope forgotten.

Terry Sullivan wrote:

> Hmmmm, US Dept. of Energy projecting Propane prices dropping in 2002.
> Can't imagine where they get that idea since all the propane companies out
> here in the So. West are projecting steadilly increasing prices for at least
> a year or more.
>
> In any case; here in San Diego county all energy prices are going out the
> roof.

--
Earl Brunner
http://coyote.accessnv.com/bruec/
bruec@anv.net

Terry Sullivan on fri 29 jun 01


Hmmmm, US Dept. of Energy projecting Propane prices dropping in 2002.
Can't imagine where they get that idea since all the propane companies out
here in the So. West are projecting steadilly increasing prices for at least
a year or more.

In any case; here in San Diego county all energy prices are going out the
roof.
Last week I called my propane distributor and discussed a yearly contract.
They actually had a plan being offered that did just that. Our currrent
propane costs have gone from $ 1.56 a gal. to over $ 2.00 a gal. in six
months. Their projected cost is for
over $ 2.25 by end of summer.
What sort of deal did I negotiate ? We wrote a contract for 1.5 times my
anual home average useage, 1800 gallons, at a prepaid price of $ 1.59 / gal.
starting in June.

Using the figures from standard btu charts [ propane at 2158 btu / gal. and
natural gas. 2488 / cu. ft ] and the current price of $ 1.90 / cu. ft. for
natural gas from SDG&E ( which they gaurentee will go up and up and up ) ; I
computed that the price is 1/10,000 of a cent difference between natural gas
and what I contracted for propane. Now ain't that interesting ?
So now I'm thinking of converting all of the Nottingham Center over to
propane as well. Heck, I haven't even begun to bargin on long term propane
contracts with the many competing local dealers.

Terry Sullivan
Nottingham Center for the Arts
www.nottinghamarts.org

ASHPOTS@AOL.COM on fri 10 aug 01


Hey the price is down and i just had a 1,000 gal tank installed. It holds 800
gals.
under a buck a gal NOW

did not set up in Ashville , lost $485. I would never have anything to do
with
John from New Morning Gallery again. The worst thing i have ever been to in
40 years

Capt Mark

Milla Miller on sat 4 oct 03


the reason I had annually posted a request for prices from Clayart members
was that I had found that suppliers seemed free to charge anyone and
everyone whatever they saw fit or ''what the market could bear''.I felt if we could
compare prices it would give members a wakeup call and possibly a tool to use
to bargain for more fair rates.I had real price and suply problems when in
the late 1970's when we had the infamous gasoline and propane shortages when a
fellow potter not oly got a far better price thanImyself but I was denied a
supply all winter because I didn't also use it for my home and he used it to
fire from his household tank.Potters were considered nonessential industry that
winter, even though I had deliveries of clay from United Sierra Mines, direct,
as well as NC mines and KY/TN by the semi to the tune of full
transports.McClean TRUCKLINE SENT A VP TO MY DOOR TO THANK ME FOR MY BUSINESS BUT EXXON
refused to sell me propane that winter![I had to go get 100 pound bottles filled
,one at a time, at a local supplier at very high prices and tie them in
tandom to fire since my 500 gallon tanks couldn't get filled by truck
delivery.Since I was a ''bit of a gal'' working all on my own that was no small feat.We do
what we have to.
My point is we need to be vigilant on this pricing as we seem to have an
image with the supplier industry that makes us a special case and we need to work
that to our advantage rather than the reverse.
Milla aka Margaret

Paul Herman on sun 5 oct 03


Hi All,

Price report from Doyle, California. $.99 per gallon, delivered to a 500
gal tank.

good firings,

Paul Herman
Great Basin Pottery
423-725 Scott Road
Doyle, California 96109 US
potter@psln.com

----------
>From: Milla Miller

> the reason I had annually posted a request for prices from Clayart members
> was that I had found that suppliers seemed free to charge anyone and
> everyone whatever they saw fit or ''what the market could bear''.I felt if
> we could
> compare prices it would give members a wakeup call and possibly a tool to use
> to bargain for more fair rates.

Dale Neese on thu 24 apr 08


I just paid 3.699 a gallon for Propane. What are your propane prices
currently?


Dale Tex
"across the alley from the Alamo"
San Antonio, Texas USA
http://www.daleneese.com

Taylor Hendrix on thu 24 apr 08


Today's price is 3 bucks a gallon. I don't buy over 100 gallons so I
don't get a price cut.

Tay Tay, in Rock Rock

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Dale Neese wrote:
> I just paid 3.699 a gallon for Propane. What are your propane prices
> currently?
...

WJ Seidl on thu 24 apr 08


Dale:
We got our last propane delivery a week before the closing, so the price
may be a bit low;
but in Key West as of March 21st, Amerigas was hitting us for $5.09 a
gallon.
No, that's NOT a typo.
Don't complain about $3.69 a gallon. I would have killed for propane at
that price.
Here in VT, we've been quoted $4.57. Thank goodness we filled the tank
at $3.00!
Wayne Seidl

Dale Neese wrote:
> I just paid 3.699 a gallon for Propane. What are your propane prices
> currently?
>
>
> Dale Tex
> "across the alley from the Alamo"
> San Antonio, Texas USA
> http://www.daleneese.com
>
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Jennifer Boyer on thu 24 apr 08


2.29 with a bulk rate for a 1000 gallon tank.
Jennifer in Vermont
On Apr 24, 2008, at 2:40 PM, Dale Neese wrote:

> I just paid 3.699 a gallon for Propane. What are your propane prices
> currently?
>
>
> Dale Tex
> "across the alley from the Alamo"
> San Antonio, Texas USA
> http://www.daleneese.com
>
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Thistle Hill Pottery
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Richard Walker on thu 24 apr 08


The last I paid was $2.71, but that was a couple of months ago. It is
the diesel that is killing me everytime I have to deliver pottery to one
of my gallery's.

Dick


On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Jennifer Boyer wrote:

> 2.29 with a bulk rate for a 1000 gallon tank.
> Jennifer in Vermont
> On Apr 24, 2008, at 2:40 PM, Dale Neese wrote:
>
>> I just paid 3.699 a gallon for Propane. What are your propane prices
>> currently?
>>
>>
>> Dale Tex
>> "across the alley from the Alamo"
>> San Antonio, Texas USA
>> http://www.daleneese.com
>>
>>
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> ***************************
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> Thistle Hill Pottery
> Montpelier, VT
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> http://jboyerdesign.com
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Elizabeth Reynolds on thu 24 apr 08


In Augusta, GA we paid $3.99 a gallon.

EFR
----- Original Message -----
From: "WJ Seidl"
To:
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 6:08 PM
Subject: Re: Propane prices


> Dale:
> We got our last propane delivery a week before the closing, so the price
> may be a bit low;
> but in Key West as of March 21st, Amerigas was hitting us for $5.09 a
> gallon.
> No, that's NOT a typo.
> Don't complain about $3.69 a gallon. I would have killed for propane at
> that price.
> Here in VT, we've been quoted $4.57. Thank goodness we filled the tank
> at $3.00!
> Wayne Seidl
>
> Dale Neese wrote:
>> I just paid 3.699 a gallon for Propane. What are your propane prices
>> currently?
>>
>>
>> Dale Tex
>> "across the alley from the Alamo"
>> San Antonio, Texas USA
>> http://www.daleneese.com
>>
>> ______________________________________________________________________________
>>
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>> melpots2@visi.com
>>
>
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Robin Wolf on thu 24 apr 08


We topped off the farm tanks March 15 - $2.00 a gallon. It has not been
that long ago ( a couple of years at the longest) that I was griping about
propane topping $1.00! And that was before I had the gas kiln.. But, the
pots that come out of my gas fired MFT are worth every penny spent on the
propane. Plus, with my lack of grace and coordination, a chainsaw to cut
timber down on the river would naturally lead to excessive medical bills and
ambulance rides! So, propane is cheap at half the price when you look at
what I get, and what I save :-)



Robin Wolf

Rt 2 Box 142W

Kingfisher, OK 73750

robinwolf@pldi.net

405.368.0919

Alisha Clarke on fri 25 apr 08


This thread just reminded me to get a refill. They quoted $2.759 here
in western MA. I have two 100gal tanks.
Leesh

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Mimi Patrick on sun 27 apr 08


I am currently paying 2.649 per gallon for propane. I use the supplier's
budget plan that sets the price at a guaranteed rate for 12 months. The
price is usually lower than a monthly rate, but it irritates me that they
add a flat fee of 7.75 per month to use the budget plan. I have a rental
cottage and that rate in December when the tank was last filled was 3.229
per gallon. Then add on the fuel recovery fee (whatever that is) and hazmat
surcharge and you get pretty close to 3.40 per gallon. They get you coming
and going as far I can see.

Mimi Patrick
Argenta Earth & Fire Co.
Gold Hill, NV