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8850dave

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I have been told LP gas is on allotment here in Northern Illinois, just another problem to hold back this late harvest.
 
No real shortage in LP gas. The problem is in transportation. The supply is there, delivery is the problem.
 
I'm hearing same thing in central IL. Havent seen the effects of it yet but it is surely a big mean gorrilla in the closet at this point. Maybe this rain will help and sounds like there are places harvest is wrapping up. About a half inch of rain overnight, still raining now.
bill
 
Are there pipelines that are shut down? Is there a trucker's strike going on? Are there no trucks available? How about trains?

IOW, this is a "created" shortage, kinda like what Enron did with electricity to drive up prices. If the idiots in the Energy biz keep doing crap like that, it won't be long before our glorious CinC decides to nationalize the energy companies the way he did GM. It'll be done "with the best interests of the public in mind," no doubt...THEN we'll be under the thumb of the bureaucrats in yet another area of our lives! But the energy suppliers will have brought that on themselves, so they'll have no one else to blame when it happens.
 
We are hearing the same thing on this side of the state. It's a circumstantial thing where supply and transportation has been overwhelmed. Like Bill said, a week of rainy weather will ease the situation a little.
 
Yeah, it's not like farmers have a history of harvesting crops this time of year, or that people heat their homes with LP. So this is all a surprise to the suppliers, since folks never use more of the product in these activities; therefore, the suppliers had no idea it was going to happen, and had no way to prepare for folks to actually use their products.

Gimme a freakin' break...spot shortages are just excuses to raise prices when the other ways aren't working.
 
When corn is running 27per cent moisture or greater, it takes alot more lp to dry the corn. The transportation end comes in that a driver is only allowed to drive 11 hours in a 14 hour day with 10 hours off before he can start again.
 
There are two company's supplying LP to our area. One has no problem but the other is limiting farmers to 500 gallons every other day. That is putting farmers in a major bind with the wet corn. They need 45000 gallons a day to supply demand but today they only received 18000 gallons.
 
With the rain harvest will stop and the supply will catch up quick. No shortage just transporting backlog no reason to panic.
 
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