Posted on 01/28/2014 4:10:05 PM PST by Karl Spooner
If you’re heating with propane, it might be time to turn the thermostat down.
Way down.
The perfect storm of a wet fall followed by an immediate “turn on the furnace, honey” start of winter has combined with an intermittently working pipeline to squeeze the supply of propane to the upper Midwest.
Adding to that misery was the rupture of a natural gas pipeline on Saturday in Canada that interrupted the main supply to some areas of the Upper Midwest.
Shortly following the pipeline explosion, Xcel Energy − a Minneapolis-based company − asked customers in North Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin who use natural gas to heat their homes to turn their thermostats down to 60 and avoid using natural gas appliances. Businesses that use natural gas also were asked to conserve.
(Excerpt) Read more at southernminn.com ...
"Late last year, the Obama administration approved a plan by energy company Kinder Morgan Cochin LLC, to reverse the flow of a 1,900-mile pipeline and use it to transport to Canada gas produced from hydraulic fracturing in Texas.
According to Selbrade, that pipeline now operates only intermittently and will shut down completely in 2015. It supplied 40 percent of the gas available in the Midwest."
Seems to me what you posted is a delivery issue...not a supply issue.
Propane is a pain but I refuse to move to a city. I gotta split more wood.....
Correct, the supply is going elsewhere.
Any coal in your area?
That's how supply and demand is supposed to work.
I use NATGAS to heat the house....
Was 0 degrees here last weekend...got up to 34 today.
Got another fire going tonight. Watched bedlam last night...OU beat OSU!! Had a fire going then too...!!
FRegards,
Back when I had a propane heated home, and prices spiked (this isn’t the first time it’s happened) there were times when it was cheaper to use resistance electric heaters than burn propane.
Not sure of the economics currently. The math isn’t difficult.
I WISH I had access to natural gas. Propane is the biggest rip off ever.
I tell them to convert...but it's costly.
Don’t ya love gloat?
“Seems to me what you posted is a delivery issue...not a supply issue. “
The two can and often do have precisely the same effect in the short term.
You cannot convert to natural gas if there is no natural gas line any where near your house. It isn’t an option.
Here in Indiana the news was saying if you run out, it’s 7 days wait for a delivery.
Showed folks hooking up 20lb grill tanks to their house line.
Not to worry, Obammy has lots of hot air to keep folks warm!
I just got 100 gallons at $2.80 per here in central Texas (near Corsicana). The driver said it’s over $6 in Minnesota.
I am buying wood inserts and a wood stove for the basement. I am sick of it. Ok so I have to spend a few weekends a year splitting wood. it is good exercise right. Screw em.
Is this some of a joke to you people on natural gas? They discontinued a pipeline that carried 40% of the propane gas. Didn’t you read the article?
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