They are at it again. The Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration has published yet another proposed increase for the infamous bobtail tax.
Read More Roy Willis oversees the annual spending of some $50 million in programs and projects designed to enhance the industry’s image and boost sales. Have those efforts left the U.S. propane industry better positioned to respond to a radically changing global energy market?
Read More The screaming newspaper headline landed like an angry kick to my stomach, and the story details left my heart broken.
Read More LP Gas Magazine Editor Pat Hyland’s Viewpoint column (Pinnacle No More) in the July issue rang quite a few bells with this veteran of 25 years of propane industry trade shows and annual meetings. All the more so as I was one of the principals involved in the decision to transition from the old annual meeting with trade show to Pinnacle.
Read More Nobody has to tell propane marketers that today’s business climate is far more complex than a generation ago.
Read More Like the annual meeting in Chicago and the Northeast Convention before it, Pinnacle – the propane industry’s premier educational conference – is now just a footnote in the industry archives.
Read More Propane marketers may soon have a way to evaluate competing brandsof equipment beyond the promotional material distributed by productmanufacturers and vendors.
Read More For more than 20 years, the No. 1 concern of small-business owners nationwide has been the runaway cost of health insurance.
Read More It’s winters like this past one that drive independent propane marketers into an early retirement.
Read More As I travel around the country talking to retailers, most are quick to mention that customer service and loyalty are what set their business apart from the competition. But, much like safety, I have to wonder how many offer only lip service.
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