As many of you know, I have been monitoring a situation since last summer when a 500-gallon tank was up against the wall of a convenience store, with the propane utilized to heat the building and fill cylinders. It was an accident waiting to happen. I referred to it in the August 2013 column “Safety in your backyard,” describing the... read more
McCraw Oil, a distributor of propane, fuels and lubricants in northeast and central Texas and southeast Oklahoma, joined the Alliance AutoGas network. Alliance AutoGas now consists of about 100 member companies and conversion centers across 46 states in North America. read more
The Senate introduced a bill to address the causes of last winter’s propane shortage and provide solutions to minimize the chance of future shortages. According to a press release from the respective offices of Sens. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis.; Al Franken, D-Minn.; and Rob Portman, R-Ohio, the Propane Supply and Security Act, which they introduced July 31, would prevent shortages in... read more
In early discussions about a new propane industry safety program on the potential dangers of do-it-yourself gas projects, a baseball analogy was born. “It’s the World Series, Game 7, bottom of the ninth,” Scott Brockelmeyer, vice president of corporate communications and marketing for Ferrellgas, as well as a St. Louis Cardinals fan, says to me. “Are you going to toss... read more
