Posted on 01/27/2014 2:55:40 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
As brutal cold continues to blast much of the nation, a propane shortage is driving up heating bills, prompting accusations of price gouging and leading to energy emergencies in more than a dozen states.
"They're worried they might not be able to keep those chickens warm," said Jeff Helms of the Alabama Farmers Federation.
And consumers are grousing about higher prices.
"It looks like there's some price gouging going on," said Phillip Wallace, director of schools in Stewart County, Tenn., which were closed Thursday and Friday because they were short on propane for heating classrooms. The district was due to receive 2,000 gallons. But Wallace complained the propane cost $3.45 a gallon, up from $1.29.
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Any non-temporary increases are more because of currency devaluation due to massive money-printing, in my estimation.
Who ya got?
I get mine from Shelby.
Ive no idea the price yet.
We use Ferrellgas.
My aunt and uncle lived in Reelsville!
Amen!
This will be the ONLY way America can ‘pay’ for the bills it has run up.
Do NOT base your future worth on numbers printed on paper!!
ANY paper...
Just heard that its over $5 a gallon right now here in WI. Paid about $2.30 just a few months ago.
I’d like to know if this shortage was intentionally manufactured or what. This is just the kind of thing that works to drive people from the rural areas to the urban ones... Agenda 21.
I loved that lump coal. An old time dealer used carry 1 lb nuggets here, but he finally retired. So much less work than burning wood, and that’s if you can find wood that will burn at this time of year. With the price of propane now you could pay for a coal stove in week or two!
We had an underfeed stoker furnace in our wash plant. The burner had been liberated from a “county home,” that had been closed a few years earlier. It was built for burning coal on upside down grate bars called twiers.
Great, too bad we never developed an energy policy over the past 30 years.
Here in Ga. they are limiting deliveries to 100 gallons
Thank goodness I had mine filled two weeks ago.
Also got my thirty pound bottle filled and it cost
$20, got another one filled yesterday and it cost $25.
Thanks for the global warming Al.
that’s who I’m with, I think the fill 250 gallons
was around 450 or so. Not too bad when you buy in bulk.
I keep the small tanks 30gal to run my shop heater
and portable forge.
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