Propane shortage linked to ethanol
"To anyone wondering why there is a shortage of propane and doubling and tripling of the price this year: One reason is the 2007 government mandate on ethanol production.
Farmers planted record acres of corn in the spring of 2013. In fact, they planted corn in places its never been planted before. Corn was planted so far north that it didnt ripen and mature before winter set in.
In a normal year, propane is put into storage in September, October and November in anticipation of the winter heating season. But this year, that propane was used to dry corn that was immature and wet.
You cant blame farmers for planting more corn to take advantage of the fact that 30 percent of our corn crop is used to make ethanol..."
The EPA has made it profitable for farmers to dry wet, green corn in the early winter with propane energy, in order to produce ethanol energy. Somehow, I doubt the energy trade is even in the slightest.
At least you propane-heating peasants got it up the wazoo dry with the EPA's ethanol rhino horn, and you didn't even know that they were responsible!
BTW - they'll do it again this year, if they're not stopped.
You need to get a better source of information. The entire paragraph is false. So are most of the rest of the 'facts', including that constantly trumpeted "30% of corn for ethanol" which is an outright lie.
As to the price of propane, do you really think that it was only the NE who got hit with those prices? It wasn't.
Even the Midwest farmers, who you are blaming for those prices, got hit, and hard. What do you think those prices did to the livestock farmers who burn more propane in an hour than the average home uses in a month?
It also who help to examine why the NE got hit so hard.
Could it be that they have a Global Warming mindset, and didn't fill their tanks last summer when prices were low?
Could it be that they have a Global Warming mindset, and don't want to have fuel distribution pipelines located in the NE part of America?
Could it be that they have a Global Warming mindset, and don't want an electrical generation system that would sustain them located in their part of the country, thus having no auxiliary heat sources?
Could it be that they have a Global Warming mindset, and don't want to prepare for cold winters?
Don't blames the rest of us for their foolishness.