Propane Program
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CRA recently surveyed members about their propane use, suppliers, and interest in a CRA Service Value Provider program for propane. Here are the results of the survey.
1. Do you sell propane?
Yes: 73% (24 responses)
No: 27% (9 responses)
2. How many gallons do you sell per year? (16 responses)
• Less than 500
• 1,000
• 50,000
• 19,000
• 8000
• 100,000
• 5000 (2 responses)
• 7500
• 15,000
• 600+/-
• 12 - 15,000
• Not sure
• 25,000
• 10 to 12,000
• 18,000
3. Do you pay a rental fee for your tank and/or equipment to dispense propane?
Yes: 33% (6 responses)
No: 67% (12 responses)
If Yes, what is the fee? (6 responses)
• 65.00 plus 275.00 tax on meter.
• 100 ? forget.
• $1.00/yr. (3 responses)
• We only charge a fee for extra tanks.
4. Who is your vendor? (18 responses)
• Suburban (6 responses)
• Amerigas (2 responses)
• Ted Johnson (4 responses)
• Wholesale Fuel; Griggs
• The Hawaii Gas Co.
• Western Propane
• Campora Propane
• Wessel Propane
• Kamps
5. What would you need to consider changing vendors? (15 responses)
• Not much.
• Better price. (2 responses)
• Ted Johnson to drop the ball.
• Good prices and service.
• Low pricing, never out of product.
• What’s the point?
• Just changed to Suburban from Amerigas.
• Possibly. (2 responses).
• If we had a very bad relationship with our vendor we might consider. But we have been satisfied for many years.
• Yes. (2 responses)
• Don’t think so.
• Ted Johnson cannot be improved upon.
6. Are you interested in a CRA Service Valued Provider for propane?
Yes: 72% (13 responses)
No: 28% (5 responses)
Additional comments: (6 responses)
• If they service Portland.
• I would like to see what you have to offer.
• Do they service Hawaii?
• We don’t want to pull permits from our city to change out our large tank.
• Maybe.
• Only if it’s Ted Johnson.
7. Additional survey comments: (2 responses)
• We have a 500 gallon tank used to fill tanks for our party rental equipment. We do not sell and fill tanks to public.
• We are very happy with Ted Johnson.
