Georgia propane prices

Georgia's propane year does not start with cold weather. The state leads the country in broiler production, and poultry houses pull propane for brooder heat well before home furnaces do, on top of the fall drying load from peanuts and grain. The Dixie pipeline crosses the state carrying Gulf Coast barrels toward the Carolinas, and coastal import terminals give the Southeast a second supply line behind it.

The figure above is EIA's weekly survey average for Georgia, collected from retail dealers during the October to March heating season and published Wednesday afternoons. No survey runs in the warm months, so the last spring reading stands until the fall. EIA also surveys a wholesale price for Georgia, plotted as the lower line. The distance between the two is the delivered-service stack, and it widens when the rack falls faster than dealers reprice. The Census Bureau's American Community Survey, on five-year estimates, puts propane as the main heating fuel in 4.2% of occupied Georgia homes, below the national middle.

The regional numbers around this price are Lower Atlantic propane prices and Lower Atlantic propane stocks, the inventory that has to cover the winter. Turning this price into a fill cost takes a tank size and a gauge reading; the propane usage calculator does that arithmetic and prefills the Georgia price.