Propane price in Georgia!

Boy have I gotten fisted without a dinner date down here in Savannah, GA.

The only thing I use propane for is my stove, the propane furnace died years back and was replaced with electric.

Amerigas just filled my 50 gallon tank, rather topped it off. 35 gallons. Tax is .70 a gallon....

$199.67! So that's five bucks a gallon? Plus I pay like 50 bucks a year lease on a rusty tank....grrr!!

The problem is there is only one other propane supplier in this area I am aware of. To change suppliers, I'd have to have them bring a tank, and of course they won't do that if nobody is home, so I would have to use a vacation day, no doubt Amerigas would jerk me around and charge a fee to remove their tank, Ferrelgas would charge a set up fee and I bet the two of them are in such cahoots there is no difference in price.

Being from Canada, I can't offer alot of useful advice,but there seems to be alot of bad stories about Ferrel gas. Around here there are a few suppliers, luckily for me, I use none of them.(heat with wood)

Don't trade the witch for the devil. TDF

we just got 258 gal. 1.92 a gal. = $495 and 31 tax = $ 527 - thats in illinois -- not ferrelgas - i wont use them

How long will that last. I just paid 598.69 for 150 gallons of fuel oil. Will last about two months depending on weather in Ohio. Talk about sticker shock.

Average price of propane in Georgia right now is listed as $2.35.

Central NY is $2.85 and Albany area of NY is $3.35.

Sounds like someone is sticking it to you, but same usually happens to me. I own my own 1000 gallon tank and just paid $3 per gallon here in Otsego County NY and I think I'm getting ripped off. I'm going to call some other places next week and see if the other prices differ. I am supposed to be getting the lowest bulk rate.

We put in an outdoor wood furnace that heats water that is then piped to the house about seven years ago.
Took 2-3 years to pay fot itself and the installation. The dealer says he has not sold one on 3 years due to vast increases in costs. Furnaces have gone up and the pipework to/from the house is now $5.00 per foot.

You can't win whichever way you go.

I paid 2.30 for 150 gallons about a month ago. I didn't top off as I anticipate moving the tank soon. The 300 gallon price saves 5 cents a gallon.

I would imagine their per gallon price has a minimum delivery amount say 100 gallons and any amount under that has a delivery charge added on.

Why don't you get an electric stove? Probably cheaper on the long run

If you use that small a quantity of gas why not just
buy a 40 gal. RV tank or two and take them to town
once in a while and fill it there?
Be way cheaper than leasing and paying a deliver
charge. To me anyway...

I had Ferral gas once, not a happy realtionship. Prices sucked and what was even worse paying them was like playing the lottery, they'll take the check, they'll cash the check, they might credit your account, they might not. If they don't the cost of proving to them they screwed up was on your shoulders.

Get her a nice electric stove/cooktop for Christmas.... Or do the Bottles like chriswa suggested......... Save plenty of bucks and save trimming around an ugly tank......

1.92 per gal is a good price for lp right now. Heating oil in NY is more than we are paying for road use diesel in Mo ($3.69)

Look at your itemized bill, you may have paid almost as much for the delivery charge or minimum delivery quantity as for your propane. Here are three alternatives to consider.

1. Would your supplier give/rent/exchange you a larger tank to reach a more economical minimum delivery size?

2. Have you looked into the cost of using 100 pound propane bottles instead of a small bulk tank? At 6.5 pounds per gallon of propane the tanks hold about 15 gallons each. How long did that 35 gallons last for you, a year or more?

Fifty years ago many kitchen stoves and isolated live stock waterer heaters ran off two 100 pound propane bottles. The regulator setup would draw off only one bottle at a time until the first bottle was empty then it automatically switched over to the draw only from the second bottle. You could remove and replace the empty bottle while the second bottle was in use. In theory the pilot light always stayed burning, in practice not always. You hauled the empty tank into town and exchanged it for a full one. The setup was cheap and fairly reliable but it was labor intensive.

A 100 pounds bottle weighs around 50 pounds empty and 150 pounds full. The biggest hastle is wrestling the full bottle off the pickup and over to the regulator. You move the bottles by holding the top neck, tilting the bottle slightly to one side, then rolling the bottle along on one side of the bottom rim. It is easier than moving a rear tractor tire, but balance is still important. A bottle cart, feed bag cart or refrigerator cart would be much handier and safer. Convienience was propably the biggest reason folks chaged from bottled propane to bulk tanks.

3. If you will soon be in the market for a new range, an electric range may be an alternative. Unless your gas range still has a pilot light, the electricity an electric range will actually use will cost 25% to 50% more per BTU than what your gas range uses, but there"s no extra delivery charge. An electric kitchen range will need a seperate 40 amp 220 volt circuit breaker and wiring. If that"s not already in place it could cost $200 or more install. You said you heat your house with electricity, so your main circuit breaker panel should have enough extra capacity to add an elecrtic range onto it.

You said you removed an old propane furnace, could heat your house with just a 50 gallon propane tank? WOW that"s small!

Good luck.

The guy that filled my LP bottles for my fork lift was on vacation a few years ago and I got low on fuel, Took a couple of bottles to the Ferrel gas dealer (no delivery)and had them filled. Cost exactly twice what my independent dealer was charging to come to my place and fill them.

OK I found the itemized bill- propane alone was $169.85 for 35.1 gallons. Doing the math it comes to $4.83 a gallon. The itemizaton is $11.89 in taxes, $7.56 fuel recovery fee, a $9.69 hazmat surcharge, and then they show another .68 in taxes....

No mention of a delivery charge. Looked at the fine print on the back of the invoice (part of which is missing as it got sent in with the statement and check) regarding that. They do not in fact show the price per gallon on the bill. I had to divide it

I am going to call up as joe blow MOnday and ask what the price per gallon is to fill a 100 lb bottle, and see just how off it is.

I used to have a 100 lb cylinder that held 24 gallons I believe. It would last about 3 months cooking. The problem was refilling- every place around closed at 5 pm, and invariably I had gotten off work too late to get the cylinder filled. And they were closed weekends. And some times I have to travel for work and then my wife would be out of cooking gas for days until I came home.

I think that in my case I am better off just going to electric.

(quoted from post at 15:36:39 12/10/11) I think that in my case I am better off just going to electric.

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And a propane campstove/burner in case the power goes out and no more problems.........

I cook on a Jenn Air propane cooktop. Bake in an electric oven. I use the twin 10 gallon rv tanks, with that auto switchover assembly. One tank lasts about 2 months and I use it for two meals a day, 7 days a week.

I am paying $1.85/gallon and it is up nearly $.50 from last year. That is from Farm Service.

Looks like you would be better off with a portable tank. The flyingJs in GA are around $3.00/gal + sales tax. Which is the same price as here.

http://www.pilotflyingj.com/fuel-prices?filters=filter-state_GA

Here in west Ga(Troup county) two weeks ago i paid $2.47 per gal for propane. James

Average weight for liquid propane about 4.2 pounds per gallon.

Gotta weigh in here. Put in propane furnace about 12 years ago with a new house. Checked with several suppliers, and found out there are different prices for gas, even from the same supplier. Of course, bulk is much cheaper. I've got a 1000 gal tank. It's on an autofill, and I own the tank. So they fill it when they are in the area. The fact that I own my tank cuts the cost by almost half. Girl from Sufferin States says the cheapest way to get fuel is to have a larger tank, like 100#, and when you need gas, throw it in the truck and bring it up. No delivery, and owned tank price. Neighbor has two, and uses one until it runs low, opens valve to second tank, closes valve to first tank and takes it back up for a refill.

BUT-- 1. Own your own tank(s)
2. Take the tank to the supplier for refills.
3. Price more than one supplier