With gasoline prices tipping $4 a gallon in some states, propane autogas is now even more attractive as a cheaper, cleaner-burning alternative vehicle fuel. That’s been the message at an autogas road show this week in North Carolina, sponsored by the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC). “With gas prices putting a strain on wallets […]
Following up on the vision of wider but more cautious tapping of America’s vast natural gas reserves that he laid out in March, President Obama has called on a group of experts to explore how to make gas drilling safer. The New York Times reported on Friday that the Department of Energy, at the direction […]
Spring has technically sprung and, though the weatherman says the East Coast will get a sprinkling of snow tomorrow, that has got to be the winter’s last hurrah. Good riddance. Meantime, in the state of Maine, there are more chilly nights in the forecast. But that hasn’t stopped the downtrend on propane prices there. The […]
The tail end of the heating season has not played out like it has in past years, when rising temperatures and dwindling demand has flattened out retail prices reliably around mid-February. Instead, propane customers got a little late-season volatility this year. A fire blazed up at the country’s largest propane hub, a supplier came up […]
The outlook for retail propane prices this week is grim, as a recent disruption higher up the supply chain has trickled down through the market. Last week, wholesale prices spiked (more than 28 cents), taking a big bite out of the rack-to-retail margins for dealers. So we figured these gains would get passed along to […]
The early indications about what retail propane is going to do this week? Looking flat. The Monday price survey is out from the Pine Tree State, and it’s got a nice ring to it: The propane in Maine remains exactly the same. Retail prices stayed flat last week, based on a 925-gallon burn, according to […]
In the ongoing courtship between a national energy company and a seaside town in Maine, the two have reached a common hitch for couples: Should they move in together? The energy company, DCP Midstream, certainly likes the little town — where it would establish a marine propane terminal. But Searsport, which is home to about […]
As we wrote about last month, the town of Searsport, Maine, is being courted by a national propane wholesaler as the proposed site for a sea terminal. The Denver-based DCP Midstream wants to build an intermodal pit stop at the town’s Mack Point, where propane would arrive by ship and be carried away by truck […]