Got plenty of Propane ?

Hank Hill is da man!!! :B

Strickland Propane (and propane accessories) is from the TV show (cartoon?) Hank Hill. Hank works at Strickland Propane.

A great song. If it ever came to pass, we could RV all year in the frozen tundra of NoDak. :)

westend wrote:

The Weekenders wrote:

todouble wrote:

Chris Bryant wrote:

Lynnmor wrote:
A major reason for the propane shortage is that so much of it was used this year for corn drying for the production of ethanol. Yes, everyone is paying for this nonsense. Don't expect the news media to say much about this.

Umm, ethanol production has nothing to do with it. Harvested corn must be dried no matter what it will be used for.

Yes but we produce more corn now then ever cause we have this ethanol******shoved down our throats. Were burning our food supply, its insane! If we didnt have the ethanol******we wouldnt grow as much corn therfore wouldnt use more propane.

Couldn't agree more. Perfectly stated!! I am fed up to here with this ethanol nitemare shoved down our throats.

OK, but which nightmare is worse, the one where your lawn mower is hard to start or the one where the sky is so full of burnt fossil fuel that your children can't breathe, climate change increases so that all the crops fail, and ocean temperatures go so far up that coastal areas are under water?

LOL you just made me spit up my Coors Light! WOW!! Global warming, are you serious? Is that why the Russian ship with global warming scientists got froze in the Antarctic Sea? I will stick with the fine folks at Minnesotans For Global Warming.

The Weekenders wrote:

todouble wrote:

Chris Bryant wrote:

Lynnmor wrote:
A major reason for the propane shortage is that so much of it was used this year for corn drying for the production of ethanol. Yes, everyone is paying for this nonsense. Don't expect the news media to say much about this.

Umm, ethanol production has nothing to do with it. Harvested corn must be dried no matter what it will be used for.

Yes but we produce more corn now then ever cause we have this ethanol******shoved down our throats. Were burning our food supply, its insane! If we didnt have the ethanol******we wouldnt grow as much corn therfore wouldnt use more propane.

Couldn't agree more. Perfectly stated!! I am fed up to here with this ethanol nitemare shoved down our throats.

OK, but which nightmare is worse, the one where your lawn mower is hard to start or the one where the sky is so full of burnt fossil fuel that your children can't breathe, climate change increases so that all the crops fail, and ocean temperatures go so far up that coastal areas are under water?

Samsontdog, it went up Thursday AM to $2.49 at Cactus Propane on S. Frontage Rd and up to $2.50 at Cactus Storage on N. Frontage Rd. Wasn't past today so I don't know if those prices are correct now. Where is Strickland Propane a couple of posters are referring too?

todouble wrote:

Chris Bryant wrote:

Lynnmor wrote:
A major reason for the propane shortage is that so much of it was used this year for corn drying for the production of ethanol. Yes, everyone is paying for this nonsense. Don't expect the news media to say much about this.

Umm, ethanol production has nothing to do with it. Harvested corn must be dried no matter what it will be used for.

Yes but we produce more corn now then ever cause we have this ethanol******shoved down our throats. Were burning our food supply, its insane! If we didnt have the ethanol******we wouldnt grow as much corn therfore wouldnt use more propane.

Couldn't agree more. Perfectly stated!! I am fed up to here with this ethanol nitemare shoved down our throats.

Some years the corn is dry enough right from the field to put in the bins and not rot. This year due to the late planting season it has to be dried. Either by the farmer in his personal grain storage facility, a grain terminal, or by a ethanol plant. One way or another it has to be below 15% moisture to keep.

A lot of the ethanol plants are converting over to producing some of there ethanol from cellulous which means in the future they will be making it from corn stalks instead of just the kernel of corn it's self.

notruffinit wrote:

Chris Bryant wrote:

Lynnmor wrote:
A major reason for the propane shortage is that so much of it was used this year for corn drying for the production of ethanol. Yes, everyone is paying for this nonsense. Don't expect the news media to say much about this.

Umm, ethanol production has nothing to do with it. Harvested corn must be dried no matter what it will be used for.

Actually, corn used for ethanol requires no drying if is able to be stored in a high moisture storage facility. I know of farmers taking the crop directly to the ethanol plant without any drying and avoiding the expense of doing so.

I guess in a FREE enterprise system, one wouldn't grow somethimg that didn't have a market. The corn was produced to sell to ethanol plants. The government requires that product to be produced.

Only corn that can be processed right away would not need drying. Ethanol plants operate all year and need a supply that has not rotted.

Chris Bryant wrote:

Lynnmor wrote:
A major reason for the propane shortage is that so much of it was used this year for corn drying for the production of ethanol. Yes, everyone is paying for this nonsense. Don't expect the news media to say much about this.

Umm, ethanol production has nothing to do with it. Harvested corn must be dried no matter what it will be used for.

Actually, corn used for ethanol requires no drying if is able to be stored in a high moisture storage facility. I know of farmers taking the crop directly to the ethanol plant without any drying and avoiding the expense of doing so.