The propane industry already has made substantial inroads as the choice of builders and buyers of manufactured housing, but the potential exists for even greater penetration into a market that is getting stronger on a daily basis.
Read More A Cincinnati classroom of veteran forklift users begins a daylong training session with a 20-question test to measure their knowledge about maintaining and repairing propane-powered forklift fuel systems. Among the questions:
Read More For those of you who find it difficult to introduce a colorless gas to potential customers, a new set of television commercials launched in recent weeks is designed to do it for you.
Read More The impact of advertising might be hard to discern, but the propane industry is hoping its commercials will give retailers something a bit more tangible – new business leads.
Read More For most of the nation’s propane retailers, summer is a slow period, a time to regroup after one busy winter heating season and plan for the next. Some retailers — particularly those in the South — stay busy selling fuel for heating swimming pools.
Read More It’s going to take a lot of cash to prove whether the propane industry’s money is being well spent.
Read More Propane price spikes in two of the last three winters had unhappy constituents from the 4.6 million propane-dependent households chewing the ears of their Congressional representatives for help.
Read More In response to his July article "All customers don’t offer equal value," I agree wholeheartedly with LP/Gas business columnist Carl Hughes that in his hypothetical residential vs. agriculture scenario all customers do not offer equal value. In fact, I would suggest that any time a business slashes margins by more than 58 percent for similar volumes — as Mr. Hughes implies happens with agricultural customers — then equitable profits and business value are unrealistic expectations.
Read More As I end my term as chairman of the Propane Education & Research Council, my perspective about PERC has changed during my six years as an independent propane marketer on the council. Over those years, I’ve been troubled by some of the perceptions within the industry about what PERC can or should do.
Read More Safety is a relative term. Don’t believe it? Try disputing the catchy phrase that competing energy vendors use to lure prospective customers: "Go propane, go boom."
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