An important element in the prosecution of lawsuits filed by plaintiffs is the financial costs and potential recovery related to a given claim. A potential game changer in this consideration is third-party funding of litigation.
Read More Longtime LP Gas Editor in Chief Pat Hyland resigned to become the director of industry programs for the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC).
Read More John Wallace did precisely what Bob Myers said his old boss would do.
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In 1998, the editor wrote: “Before there were overfill prevention devices, cylinder exchange racks or even bobtail trucks, there were a handful of businessmen whose insight and determination guided the early formation of the LP gas industry almost eight decades ago. H. Emerson Thomas was one of those individuals whose pioneering spirit helped put the fledgling industry on track to grow into the $8 billion industry it has become today.”
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One doesn’t have to look far to find Milford Therrell’s legacy in the propane industry.
Read More Walter Otheman Snelling quite simply founded the LP gas industry. The Allentown, Pa., chemist was the one who distilled the treasure and pointed most clearly toward a future in which propane was a clean, reliable energy alternative rather than a waste product or chemistry lab curiosity.
Read More It may as well be the 1970s. Gasoline prices are high and climbing, and Americans once again are thirsting for alternative fuels to power their vehicles. For Bob Myers, it is all too familiar.
Read More Sam McTier lives in Propane. His house is in Chicago, but in reality the industry’s nearly 86-year-old eldest statesman lives in a kind of virtual Propane Community.
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James E. Ferrell has the kind of rags-to-riches success story that once epitomized the American experience.
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In an industry known in pre-corporate days for being a little down and dirty, John Blossman stood apart.
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