Propane Tank Exchange Pricing

[DMCakhunter]

This afternoon heading home from work I passed the local convenience store and noted the price for tank exchange on 20 pounders. Was $24.99 and $64.99 for outright purchase. That caught my attention cause I had been by a Menards earlier in the day. Turned around and went to the menards and sure enough, they were still at $17.99 and $44.99. Bought 3 full tanks and 2 12 packs of 1 pound cans for $53.00 each.
I knew propane was higher, this year we contracted at our cabin for $1.599 vs $1.199 last year.
Guess I didn?t think about 20 pound cylinders going up that much.

[pkveazey]

Just think about this for a moment. Joe Average doesn't think about things the way Preppers do. Joe Average just thinks things will always be the way they are today. If you were not a Prepper, there is no way you would have turned around and gone back to the place that hasn't jacked their prices up yet. You can bet that by next week that place will have also gone up. When Joe Average decides he needs Propane, he's gonna get screwed blued and tattood. I tell people all the time that they need to prepare for what's coming but I have to tone it down so they don't think I'm over reacting to, "Henny Penny Syndrome". I get the feeling that they believe me but then they don't do anything about it. Maybe the public has actually been brainwashed and I just don't recognize it.

[Sir John Honeybucket]

Good eye. and taking ACTION when you saw the problem is the correct action. Last year, anticipating a 'probable' propane shortage, I replaced the 'back-up' heater in the cottage with a wood stove. As if on schedule, upon winter's arrival, propane locally was very difficult to source, deliveries were unreliable and expensive.  Wood, well, here, it grows on trees.


-SJH

[JohnyMac]

PKv, I do think people (Non preppers) hear ya' but are lazy or put off buying prepping stuff because other things are a higher priority.

My propane tank was just topped off and I paid $3.39 a gallon. Now most folks have a wood stove as a backup and a furnace (oil, propane, or natural gas) as their main heating source. We have a propane furnace but use it as a backup with our wood stove as our main heating source.

As I have written about ad nauseam, we buy a tri-axle of wood every spring. Cost is around $700- for 9 to 10-cords worth of logs. I cut them down to 20 to 22-inches in length and split. Six cords does us nicely for ~6-months. The remaining 4-cords of logs I sell to my neighbor at my cost, ~$70- a cord. I could cut and split it at $180- a cord and recoup the cost of my winters heat altogether however, I am too lazy for that. 



Then of course we are surrounded by thousands of treed acres to pull from if the triaxle's of wood stops coming or becomes to expensive.

And as Sir John wrote, "Wood, well, here, it grows on trees." Here too 

[DMCakhunter]

Saw this in a FT Lauderdale CVS