Anyone else here using liquid propane?

[flatbutt]

I just got a delivery and Superior Plus propane charged me $4.79 per gallon. I called and complained and was able to get that reduced to my pre-buy contract (which had just expired) price of $3.28 per gallon so it worked at for me but that price (4.79) seems usurious to me.

What are you guys paying?

[stevej37]

Amerigas just filled my tank yesterday...244.8 gals at $2.909
With taxes it came to $764.50

I'm still on a contract for this season....I think.

[OK-944]

We've had the same issue with Pre-buy's...but also usually find that a bit of negotiating, including some mention of better deals being offered to others in our neighborhood - often helps get a substantial amount shaved off of a contract, which on a number of levels makes absolutely no sense in the larger scheme of things - but what the heck!

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by stevej37

Amerigas just filled my tank yesterday...244.8 gals at $2.909
With taxes it came to $764.50

I'm still on a contract for this season....I think.

Do you own the tank outright?

I rent my tanks so my price is higher.

[herr_oberst]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

...... seems usurious to me.

"Big propane" was just jealous of "big grocery".

[Evans, Marv]

I own my tank, but it is small (178 gal.) and only supplies two tankless water heaters, so a fill up lasts me a couple of years plus. I think I paid around $3.30/gal. the last time I had it filled. I could have gotten a lower price with another company if I wanted to commit to a contract. I called around, & the big companies wouldn't fill it without a contract, so I went with a local distributor for a bit higher pirce.

[fintstone]

I bought a 10+ year supply of propane in 2020 at 1.31 gal and filled my own large underground tank...so hopefully there will be another 10-year low in 5-6 years. I will top it off earlier if prices drop sooner. The tank (and buying the cheap propane) was one of my better decisions.

[rfuerst911sc]

We have a 250 gal. and a 500 gal. tank for a total capacity of 600 gallons . We have enough capacity to run from July to July and have plenty left in the tanks . Why is that important ? Because we are filling at the " summer rate " . Last year the summer rate was $1.89 a gallon . Summer rates here generally mean a savings of 25 - 30 cents a gallon . I expect a price increase this year .

We own both tanks and that helps with pricing . When you lease the only company that will fill the tank is the company you are leasing from . You can't shop around . That sucks. Every little bit helps .

[stevej37]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

Do you own the tank outright?

I rent my tanks so my price is higher.

No...I rent mine also.
The rental is billed once yearly...I think it is $187
500 gal tank...If I use over 1000 gals in the season....they credit the $187 back.

[GH85Carrera]

One of my former co-workers had a 65 mile commute each way every day. He had an old Dodge Ram pickup with 700,000 or maybe 800,000 miles. He said it rolled over so meany times he has forgotten.

Anyway, he converted it to run on propane. One of his cousins owned a propane company. They would go out to fill customers with a contract for a certain amount each month, and if their tank filled up, they still had the same per month price, but did not get the propane since the tank was full. His last stop was my co-workers house. Any "leftover" propane that other customers could not take he sold for under a buck per gallon. So he drove that old Ram on super cheap fuel and did not have to pay for gasoline.

[jcwade]

Amerigas last October 4th.

Quantity
118.3
Price
$4.329/GAL
Amount
$512.12

It was even slightly more expensive for the previous fill-up in March.

[rfuerst911sc]

Some of you guys are paying some seriously high prices .

[Evans, Marv]

Originally Posted by rfuerst911sc

Some of you guys are paying some seriously high prices .

Makes you wonder what the companies pay around the country. Most of the big companies offer a low price for your first fill up (on contract) and then charge you a higher price after that.

[stevej37]

I'm wondering how much of our propane comes from Canada.
The price may jump....soon.

[rfuerst911sc]

Originally Posted by stevej37

I'm wondering how much our propane comes from Canada.
The price may jump....soon.

^^^ yep

[Bill Douglas]

Quantities and price per gallon is too hard to work out (metric, Kiwi dollar...). But loosely speaking I'm paying two and a half times as much as I was ten years ago.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by stevej37

I'm wondering how much of our propane comes from Canada.
The price may jump....soon.

Gotta love it. We produce a lot of natural gas in Ohio and Pennsyltucky, so we built a pipeline to ship it to Louisiana to be compressed and shipped overseas. Meanwhile, we buy propane (mostly made from natural gas) from Canadaland.

[creaturecat]

10% tariff on the Canadian stuff should help out ....... winning.

[flatbutt]

I have the opportunity to switch to natural gas but a full conversion will cost about 8K.
Trying to work out the arithmetic to see if it is worth it is driving me a little nuts.

Gallons to cubic feet or therms arg!

[Skytrooper]

I do not own my tank, but as long as I buy from the owners….there is no rent on the tank. My tank went in 2002. We used it only for a pool heater. Hat has been gone for over 10 years. When we went with a new propane furnace in the fall, the tank was full ! It has been so long I do not remember them filling it. Anyway, it is a 500 gallon tank and since we reached out to the propane supplier that owns the tank, they gave us 1.49 per gallon for the first fill. After that it is 2.29 per gallon. On the coldest winter days we use about 3 gallons per day. That’s less than lunch at McDonald’s.