Yesterday's New York Times had an article about the rise in the price of propane and quoted a retired Iowa construction worker who "got shafted" and could no longer heat his dream retirement home{ with soaring cathedral ceiling and walls of windows} with a quadrupling of the price of propane on his fixed income. He guessed he would have to sell and build something smaller, but said it was good while it lasted.
I am in fear of my next fill up. The last one about 3 weeks ago was $2.219 a gal. We use propane for DHW, space heating, and cooking. I have cut back all I can and we are looking into solar DHW. My wife refuses to consider an outside clothes line.
I have a friend who works at a gas fired generator and keeps me up on the latest NG prices. Propane is made from NG and at one time this month NG was selling for $7.139 therm which translates to about the same in Propane. The pretender in the white house should expect some really nice donations next time around.
Don
Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Valley Center,
CA Senior
Software Engineer
http://www.corvair.org/chapters/chapter920/
