primitives discuss propane

[franksolich]

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Oh my.

jandrok (1000+ posts)        Sun Jan-09-05 11:09 PM
Original message
 
I think our propane company is price gouging......

They're charging $2.33/gallon. That's sounding a little high. My parents live in Northeast Texas and they're paying $1.75/gallon.

Anyone else out there got any pricing information they'd be willing to share?

I'm thinking we're taking it up the bobo on this deal.

Webster Green  (1000+ posts)      Sun Jan-09-05 11:20 PM
THE NOAH WEBSTER PRIMITIVE
Response to Original message

1. Texas energy company price gouging?

Thats hard to believe....

Ok sarcasm off....

I know that there are wide price variations between different propane companies here in California. The company that supplies our house is a total rip-off compared to other companies that deliver in the area. We had a large bill and tried to make a partial payment and then catch it up, and they said no, we would have to pay them the full amount or they would cut us off. I told them great, you'll never see a dime of that bill, and I don't care if you give me a bad credit report cuz my credit is so ****ed already that it won't really matter. I left the office cussing and giving the finger to the redneck losers that run the place.

k8conant (1000+ posts)      Fri Jan-14-05 09:44 PM
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2. Here in WV propane used to be priced on a par with gasoline...

this winter gasoline has been between $1.69 and $1.95 and both of my deliveries of propane have been at $2.70/gallon.

MadMama (1 posts)     Sat Jan-30-10 06:39 PM
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3. Propane gouging

I have a problem here in Texas. My company who I have been with since 1996 has been sold to another Company. Now they want me to pay.$3.20 per gallon for propane, while some of their other customers are paying $2.66. When I bought the last 100 gallons in Oct, I paid $2.25.

Lucky for me, I always call and check the price first. I am about to make waves come Monday.

I think the primitives should switch to electric cooking and heat.

It's safer.

[zeitgeist]

For some folk there is no such thing as safe.  Consider a gas chamber versus electric chair thing.

Now oil heat, yeah, there's the ticket.  My steam is finally starting to come up.  It was a crisp eight degrees this morning when I discovered the oil fired steam system had failed causing the back up system to come on. ( A thermostatically controlled pellet stove which I leave set at 60).

The system has just had its yearly inspection and tune up and the oil tank is at 7/8's so who knows why this occurred, suffice to say the service tech, soon to be known as "The Shadow" will be receiving a call shortly.  I only know enough to take the system out of lock up to try an force a restart which worked this time.  But I consider this akin to starting your car with jumper cables , the initial problem still exists and needs to be diagnosed and corrected.

[Specbid]

We had a large bill and tried to make a partial payment and then catch it up, and they said no, we would have to pay them the full amount or they would cut us off. I told them great, you'll never see a dime of that bill, and I don't care if you give me a bad credit report cuz my credit is so ****ed already that it won't really matter. I left the office cussing and giving the finger to the redneck losers that run the place.

OK, you're now cut off. I can't wait to see you get a decent deal from another company after this. Redneck losers huh. Bet they're laughing their butts off. You have no propane and you STILL owe the bill. Welcome to the daily calls from the bill collectors.

[NHSparky]

Considering the volatility of gas prices, not to mention the demand certain portions of the country have had this colder-than-usual winter, and they expect gas prices to stay the same?

Only in a pre-buy contract world, DUmmies.

BTW, zeit--whatever happened to that assclown in Exeter, Flynn I believe it was?

[BlueStateSaint]

Y'all missed this reference . . .

I'm thinking we're taking it up the bobo on this deal.

Someone doesn't like the homeless!

[Doc Savage]

I use propane, on a yearly fixed cost program.  Locked in at about 1.70 a gallon I think.  But, if you go with the market price, as I have done in the past, during the months of Jan and Feb, especially if it is real cold and use is high, I have paid close to 3 bucks a gallon.  It was MY CHOICE to go that way.  Placed a bet and I lost.

 Now as far as this clown

I know that there are wide price variations between different propane companies here in California. The company that supplies our house is a total rip-off compared to other companies that deliver in the area. We had a large bill and tried to make a partial payment and then catch it up, and they said no, we would have to pay them the full amount or they would cut us off. I told them great, you'll never see a dime of that bill, and I don't care if you give me a bad credit report cuz my credit is so ****ed already that it won't really matter. I left the office cussing and giving the finger to the redneck losers that run the place.

 

The propane in the tank can be taken out, it does belong to the propane provider until it is paid for.  THey most likely own the tank too.  Good luck getting another company to provide a tank and 350 gallons of propane after they do a credit check.  Kind of have to wonder why a person needs a new tank and a new provider in the middle of winter.  THese idiots just think that a company just makes this stuff on the stove and the buildings and trucks and people have to cost associated with them.

Here is the link to current   spot prices.

[Specbid]

Y'all missed this reference . . .

Someone doesn't like the homeless!

Ha, good catch.

[Splashdown]

bobolink is homeless?


 

[zeitgeist]

Considering the volatility of gas prices, not to mention the demand certain portions of the country have had this colder-than-usual winter, and they expect gas prices to stay the same?

Only in a pre-buy contract world, DUmmies.

BTW, zeit--whatever happened to that assclown in Exeter, Flynn I believe it was?

Flynn is correct as I remember it.  Don't know, I was just talking to a fellow about that yesterday.  If it was a deliberate scam my theory is hang 'em high.  If it was incompetence maybe just stick him in a bob shack * out on Winnipesaukee until ice out.
Lot of folk going for "Green Energy" around here (got to love these people but G_d help us they are idiots).  I am just guessing there will be more than a few 'unscrupulous' folk selling this stuff too.  After all just how much cooking grease is there??  How green is green? I keep thinking about the Simpson episode where Homer goes into the grease business, heck even the SignBandit ran a biodiesel still in his barn!!  ( What permits you might ask.)



*Interesting tour a bit off topic for the curious among us.

[DefiantSix]

bobolink is homeless?


 

On the streets of Denver, no less.

And Pam Dawson is on chemo, or so I heard.

[diesel driver]

k8conant (1000+ posts)      Fri Jan-14-05 09:44 PM
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2. Here in WV propane used to be priced on a par with gasoline...

this winter gasoline has been between $1.69 and $1.95 and both of my deliveries of propane have been at $2.70/gallon.

This guy is full of SHIT!  

Gas prices in WV ALWAYS run 20-30 cents/gallon higher than they do here in VA, and prices here have been running between $2.49 and $2.69/gallon....

[NHSparky]

Here is the link to current   spot prices.

Wait a sec!  Gas prices have gone UP under the guidance of "Teh Wun"?  I thought we weren't going to have to worry about paying our mortgage or filling our gas tanks anymore!

[franksolich]

This guy is full of SHIT!  

Gas prices in WV ALWAYS run 20-30 cents/gallon than they do here in VA, and prices here have been running between $2.49 and $2.69/gallon....

I wondered about that when I saw that.

Gasoline prices out here are circa $2.63-2.68 a gallon.

For whatever reason, gasoline prices in both West Virginia and Nebraska tend to be pretty similar.

I don't think gasoline here has been circa $1.69-1.95 a gallon since.....the lousy Bush economy.

[DefiantSix]

k8conant (1000+ posts)      Fri Jan-14-05 09:44 PM
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2. Here in WV propane used to be priced on a par with gasoline...

this winter gasoline has been between $1.69 and $1.95 and both of my deliveries of propane have been at $2.70/gallon.

Can anyone validate the veracity of this DUmbass?  I live in an oil producing state - well, at least we're s'posed to be - and less than 50 miles from a major refinery, and I haven't seen gasoline below $2.25 in over a year.

I'm tending to think that Coach's First Rule of DUmmies applies here.

[NHSparky]

This guy is full of SHIT!  

Gas prices in WV ALWAYS run 20-30 cents/gallon than they do here in VA, and prices here have been running between $2.49 and $2.69/gallon....

Yup--last winter gasoline prices may have been $1.69.  Not this year.  And propane prices are HIGHER than heating oil, DUmbasses!!!

NH 18 Month Fuel Price Trend

[JohnnyReb]

Bio-diesel is the way to go....get your neighbors into producing it....then go round and pickup their residue...then you're only one step away from making nitroglycerin.
 ....add it to some cat litter and you got yourself some Alfred Nobel dynamite.

Now you can act like an Islamic terrorist...if the neighbors don't pay your heat bill... 

[DefiantSix]

Bio-diesel is the way to go....get your neighbors into producing it....then go round and pickup their residue...then you're only one step away from making nitroglycerin.
 ....add it to some cat litter and you got yourself some Alfred Nobel dynamite.

Now you can act like an Islamic terrorist...if the neighbors don't pay your heat bill... 

I wonder if that's what Sparkly is trying to make with the "additives" that find their way into Stinky the Clown's rations.

[AllosaursRus]

bobolink is homeless?


 

Nah!!!!! Can't be!!! With all her DUmmie friends? That has to be impossible!!1111111

[GOBUCKS]

Can anyone validate the veracity of this DUmbass?  I live in an oil producing state - well, at least we're s'posed to be - and less than 50 miles from a major refinery, and I haven't seen gasoline below $2.25 in over a year.

I'm tending to think that Coach's First Rule of DUmmies applies here.

The post is dated 2005.

[The Village Idiot]

For some folk there is no such thing as safe.  Consider a gas chamber versus electric chair thing.

Now oil heat, yeah, there's the ticket. 

What is this, the 1890's??

[The Village Idiot]

OK, you're now cut off. I can't wait to see you get a decent deal from another company after this. Redneck losers huh. Bet they're laughing their butts off. You have no propane and you STILL owe the bill. Welcome to the daily calls from the bill collectors.

I had propane once. I was able to buy a quarter tank or half tank at a time.

[crockspot]

DUmmies and propane..... what could possibly go wrong there? 

[NHSparky]

The post is dated 2005.

Curse you, coach!!!!!

Then again, the bitches they had then should still apply today.

[franksolich]

The post is dated 2005.

Damn.

I didn't notice that when I first posted this.

The last primitive comment was from this month, this year.

I assumed it was current.

My bad.

It won't happen again.

[diesel driver]

The post is dated 2005.

DUH!  

But WV DUmmie is still full of shit....