{"id":1300389,"date":"2024-02-24T00:05:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T06:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1300389"},"modified":"2024-02-27T07:58:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T13:58:57","slug":"increased-propane-costs-shock-east-texans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1300389","title":{"rendered":"Increased propane costs shock East Texans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/02\/2024-02-24_000402-225x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"193\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1300390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/02\/2024-02-24_000402-225x193.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/02\/2024-02-24_000402-408x350.jpg 408w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/02\/2024-02-24_000402-175x150.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/02\/2024-02-24_000402.jpg 597w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c With warm weather on its way to East Texas, people may be firing up their grills and noticing high propane prices. According to our news partner KETK, most can hardly believe the current costs, and are frustrated every time they have to pick up a new tank or refill.  <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll take your breath away because the price has almost doubled,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Jason Blakeney, owner of Blakeney Hardware. Blakeney tells KETK that propane prices increased about a year and a half ago due to a major tank shortage. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But now, everything has kind of settled down there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not really a shortage of tanks anymore,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Blakeney. Blakeney wants people to know, these rates are set by the suppliers. His providers say they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t foresee the rates lowering anytime soon.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153My cost is 70 dollars for a new bottle with propane in it, it used to be 43 dollars, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s extraordinary. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m frustrated just like everyone else but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the price that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re given, and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re forced to sell it at a higher price due to that factor,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Blakeney. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Well now we have an overabundance of supply and the demand really hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t gone up that much so why haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t we seen a price drop,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Blakeney. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153So, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really bad a lot of people out there are living on fixed income, social security, all the prices just keep going up. So, yeah it really hurts,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Bauman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c With warm weather on its way to East Texas, people may be firing up their grills and noticing high propane prices. According to our news partner KETK, most can hardly believe the current costs, and are frustrated every time they have to pick up a new tank or refill. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll take your breath &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1300389\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Increased propane costs shock East Texans<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1300391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/02\/2024-02-24_000402-225x193.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Increased propane costs shock East Texans","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1300389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 10:33:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/02\/2024-02-24_000402-225x193.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Increased propane costs shock East Texans","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1300389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1300392,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300389\/revisions\/1300392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1300391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1300389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1300389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1300389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}