Kevin Yanik
Kevin Yanik was a senior editor at LP Gas Magazine.
Posts by Kevin Yanik
This is the first of a three-part blog series about the LP Gas State of the Industry report. What’s the single, most-effective way for propane retailers to grow gallons? LP... Read more»
Quality Propane, an Energy Distribution Partners (EDP) company based in Burnsville, Minn., played a key role Sunday in heating the field and keeping the sidelines warm for the NFL playoff... Read more»
A number of meteorologists predicted a milder winter for 2015-16, with a strong El Niño pattern serving as a forecast driver. Unfortunately for much of the propane industry, those forecasts... Read more»
Propane sales dipped for five straight years before rebounding two years ago, according to the American Petroleum Institute’s “2013 Sales of Natural Gas Liquids and Liquefied Refinery Gases” report. Sales... Read more»
Government regulation, natural gas expansion and other forms of competition are among the issues that keep propane retailers up at night these days. Rising insurance costs are in the mix... Read more»
Congress passed combined tax-relief and government funding legislation that has positive implications for the propane industry, the National Propane Gas Association (NPGA) announced. According to NPGA, the legislation features a... Read more»
E.M. Rogers developed the Diffusion of Innovation Theory in 1962 to explain how ideas and products gain momentum and spread over time. Rogers’ theory classifies adopters into five categories: innovators,... Read more»
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Ferrellgas, parent company of Blue Rhino, signed a settlement related to a July 2013 incident in which employees were injured during a... Read more»
Propane continues to flow downstream from big tanks to smaller tanks as it has throughout the history of the commercialized industry. But as propane retailers go about their daily routines... Read more»
The LP Gas Growth Summit brought retailers together from 12 states, yet those who attended the event in Orlando, Fla., expressed many of the same interests and concerns related to... Read more»
