Gas price vs Propane - funny math!

Posted on May 4, 2008

I don’t usually buy propane - I prefer charcoal for grilling and don’t regularly buy it for other purposes.

Pet sitting this weekend we fired up the kids’ propane grill to do some steaks. When we took them off I said “he likes to run if a while after cooking to burn off the stuff on the grill”. And then forgot to shut it off.

So I took the empty tank for a re-fill. Not realizing that other energy costs have gone way up - and hearing from my daughter whose house uses propane for heat - I was prepared to pay considerably more than the $12 it cost me back in 1999 to fill the 20# tanks to run the space heater while building my daughter’s house.

I don’t understand how that 20# tank was only $13? Was I getting ripped off back in 1999 or has someone slipped a sprocket now?

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