At last, the U.S. government is seeing the (blue) light, as Washington is finally finding out what everyone in the propane industry has known for years: propane is an integral part of the U.S. economy.
Read More If it decides the members’ challenge has merit, the court could kill the $80 million beef industry checkoff program altogether.
Read More The Propane Education & Research Council and the National Propane Gas Association have worked to develop an integrated strategy to achieve the highest levels of safety for any fuel source. This strategy establishes a vision, safety goals and training priorities as well as the means to implement them.
Read More Technology is the way we are going to grow the load for our industry.
Read More I’d like to share a personal story. Thirty years ago, I bought a gas grill, assembled it, turned on the gas, lit the burner and went in the house for the hot dogs. I came back out to find the hose had burned off and I had a roaring flame coming out of the wide-open valve.
Read More Now that the National Propane Gas Association’s move to the nation’s capital is complete and its staff muscled up, industry leaders will spend $1.1 million next year to make sure they have the full attention of the Washington decision makers they most need to impress.
Read More The propane industry already has made substantial inroads as the choice of builders and buyers of manufactured housing, but the potential exists for even greater penetration into a market that is getting stronger on a daily basis.
Read More A Cincinnati classroom of veteran forklift users begins a daylong training session with a 20-question test to measure their knowledge about maintaining and repairing propane-powered forklift fuel systems. Among the questions:
Read More Propane price spikes in two of the last three winters had unhappy constituents from the 4.6 million propane-dependent households chewing the ears of their Congressional representatives for help.
Read More In response to his July article "All customers don’t offer equal value," I agree wholeheartedly with LP/Gas business columnist Carl Hughes that in his hypothetical residential vs. agriculture scenario all customers do not offer equal value. In fact, I would suggest that any time a business slashes margins by more than 58 percent for similar volumes — as Mr. Hughes implies happens with agricultural customers — then equitable profits and business value are unrealistic expectations.
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