Northeast no-show
October 1, 2002 By LP Gas
Don’t bother marking the Northeast Convention & Trade Showon your 2003 calendar. There won’t be one.
Read More Back to school
September 1, 2002 By LP Gas
Just in time for the current back-to-school season, a $50 million program is getting under way in Texas to help school districts add new, clean fuel propane buses to their pupil transportation fleets. And that program is expected to be just the start of a major national effort to clean up school buses, spurred by new legislation and the Environmental Protection Agency’s concerns about clean air and children’s health.
Read More Ready for prime time
September 1, 2002 By LP Gas
Propane retailers dutifully monitoring the nation’s product reserves this summer breathed a collective sigh of relief when the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported a stock build of 65 million barrels last month.
Read More Don’t sabotage your banker’s support
September 1, 2002 By LP Gas
In 1996, Richard Handler took over the family propane businessafter the death of his father. He had been involved with the business whenhe was growing up, but after college he chose a career in corporate Americaand moved away.
Read More Hard times, hot bargains
September 1, 2002 By LP Gas
For sale, cheap: Nation’s sixth largest propane retailer. Publicly owned partnership with plummeting sales, empty stock value and crushing debt load. Hoping to get offer before filing for bankruptcy protection. Call day or night.
Read More The practice of safety is just that
September 1, 2002 By LP Gas
Many times managers view the issue of safety through rose-coloredglasses. What we can’t see often looks pretty good, in a compromising sortof way.
Read More Is your insurance dead on arrival?
September 1, 2002 By LP Gas
Please don’t read this month’s comments as a slam against insuranceagents. If you do, you have missed the point.
Read More Your banker’s perspective on lending
August 1, 2002 By LP Gas
We’ve established in previous columns the incredible return on capital by adding customers, and the fact that appropriate leverage through bank debt can significantly increase your returns.
Read More Worn roads pose biggest hazmat safety risk
August 1, 2002 By LP Gas
Rising demand and wear and tear on the nation’s roadways – not problems with security, per se – is causing the biggest problems for transporting hazardous materials. Improving roadways would increase hazmat transit safety more than specifically addressing hazmat transportation shortcomings, according to a report from the Research and Special Programs Administration.
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