Helium is scare Nationwide right now. A friend is in the party business and the price of helium, if you can get it at all, is way, way up making it nearly impossible to maintain the balloon side of his business. He has the tanks, he just can't get them filled. A business friend loaded up a truck load of tanks who found a supplier 6 States away so they could run them down and get them filled. This is likely to change in the future but it seems the new well drilling is producing less and less helium and creating a serious shortage.
