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.
DeNial ain’t just a river in Egypt...