I have a 500 gallon tank buried in the front yard, but I won’t go looking for a top off until spring, when heating prices ease up and the price goes down somewhat.
-D > On Dec 11, 2020, at 6:54 PM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > Most people have NatGas available and use it. > The rest of us, we mostly use Propane in the Great Lakes, while there's still > a lot of oil in New England. > > Propane markets seem somewhat independent of crude oil prices. > My new vendor was $0.92 back in January, so I was really looking forward to > the summer price bottom. So, what did I pay in August? $0.95 plus tax. > I'm the guy who owns my own tanks and doesn't have the cost of the tank baked > into my propane pricing. But this was a cheap year for tank renters too, my > Mom's winter contract is fixed at 1.399. > > On 2020-12-11 18:11, Allan Streib via Mercedes wrote: >> The market is probably speculating that with vaccines starting to roll >> out that travel (and fuel use) will be starting to pick up again. >> Also January would be peak season for use of heating oil? Not sure >> whether enough people still heat with oil for that to be a big >> factor. Last time I talked with my furnace guy, he said there's like two >> people in my area that know anything about oil furnances, but oil was >> never big in this area. Around here, the oldest homes originally used >> coal, and they all moved to natural gas. > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
