For an unsettling glimpse of the last week in propane, here is a line graph tracking the steep rise in wholesale prices as of Monday. That’s a 28.5-cent increase per gallon, or about 20-percent, in a week. So right around the time wholesale prices settled down last year, they made some sharp gains this year. […]

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 […]