Therrell left lasting legacy with work to create PERC
March 1, 2012 By Kevin Yanik
One doesn’t have to look far to find Milford Therrell’s legacy in the propane industry.
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Snelling made discovery that lit flame on propane industry
March 1, 2012 By Kevin Yanik
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 Myers accelerated propane’s path into vehicles
March 1, 2012 By Kevin Yanik
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 McTier always working to help his propane family
March 1, 2012 By Kevin Yanik
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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Ferrell, son of mom-and-pop retailer, aspired to something big
March 1, 2012 By Jennifer Webb
James E. Ferrell has the kind of rags-to-riches success story that once epitomized the American experience.
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Blossman cited safety as an extension of his concerns for others
March 1, 2012 By Jennifer Webb
In an industry known in pre-corporate days for being a little down and dirty, John Blossman stood apart.
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Anton built Suburban Propane into top retailer, helped to found NPGA
March 1, 2012 By Jennifer Webb
Mark Anton’s introduction to the propane industry reads like folklore.
Read More Industry squeezed by rising winter temperatures
March 1, 2012 By LP Gas
When Punxsutawney Phil’s distinguished top-hatted posse proclaimed that the famous prognosticating groundhog had indeed seen his shadow and thus there would be six more weeks of winter, Heather A. Haldeman of the West Virginia Propane Gas Association (WVPGA) declared, “What winter?”
Read More Everybody has an agenda this election year, but not one that will pass
March 1, 2012 By Lisa Bontempo
Last year’s policy fights might look like mere skirmishes compared to this year, an election year for the White House, the whole House of Representatives and two-thirds of the Senate, with control of the government at stake.
Read More L.P. Transportation
March 1, 2012 By Brian Richesson
A fleet of transports has traveled the northeastern roads this mild winter, having grown from century-old roots and serving customers in a propane industry celebrating its own centennial throughout 2012.
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