Take this as a sign of the recent volatility in the propane market: Nebraska lost the crown as the low-cost king of retail propane last week. The average retail price for a gallon of Nebraska propane was a half penny higher than the average price in neighboring Iowa, according to the last numbers from the […]

It turns out that the official Propane.pro forecast for this week’s average retail prices was right on. Editor Pete Dybdahl’s prediction last Wednesday that “retail prices will be flat next Wednesday” proved to accurate (except for the Wednesday part—this week’s petroleum price data from the EIA was released on Thursday due to the Presidents’ Day […]

It’s been an unsettling week. Propane prices at the major Texas hub have ticked higher and higher, seemingly in reaction to a fire at a Mont Belvieu storage facility that happened last week. That left us puzzling over the lag, and checking the national inventory level — which is on the low side — to […]

The new numbers are out, and here’s our take: not great and not really a surprise after a week of nasty weather. The average retail price for a gallon of propane went up a penny last week, according to federal data. Pretty small, but that sets a new record high for residential propane — or […]

When this week’s numbers came out from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), we were eagerly watching to see if propane prices would show signs of flattening out. But no such luck. Amid the nasty weather — a blizzard hit the East Coast on Wednesday, the same day the EIA issues its weekly report — the […]

The winter has been slow getting started, to the dismay of propane dealers. In its earnings call last week, the major retailer AmeriGas blamed unusually warm weather for cutting into sales over the last three months of the year — a complaint heard elsewhere in the industry. But the winter has since turned nasty, dumping […]