Gas...not Flatulence but Propane

Our lovely home is powered by electricity and propane. This was great 9 years ago when we moved in, it was about $.74 a gallon. It made it considerably less than natural gas. Kind of a nah, nah nah thing. However, over the years that has changed. When gas hit close to $4.00 a gallon, propane was around $2.25. Ouch! We bought propane May 30, 2008 for $2.24 a gallon, just under $2,100.00 for a tank. Yeah, ouch again! As everyone knows gas dropped quite a few months ago, quite drastically. So if anyone fancies themselves a gas expert and can tell me why propane, that has a history of being significantly lower than car gas, for as long as I know anyway, is now the same price as car gas please tell me! Can you tell I'm setting up for another one of life's little quirks? Our propane guy who is absolutely fabulous and always on top of our usage has called twice to sell us gas but being the stubborn person that I am, have refused due to the price. So Saturday, I thought, you know I'd better check our gas. I went out and lifted the lid...well needless to say my chin hit the ground when I saw the needle buried at...zero. I called my guy and he couldn't get us gas until Tuesday! Last week when temps were toasty this wouldn't be much of a problem, just quick showers and no cooking, but it wasn't toasty and Tom being just as stubborn as I am refused to hook up a reserve tank for fear he would mess up the line. By Sunday, the heater was off to the house, by Monday it was everyone in the shower together you have five minutes to clean up, by Monday night we did homework huddled around a space heater, by Tuesday morning it was 57 degrees in the house. And guess what? The price went down 20 cents over the weekend! Ha ha ha, no pain no gain!