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Coverage of legislation, regulation and energy policy affecting propane at the federal, state and local levels.

  • NPGA Scores Victories as 2020 Legislative Session Ends

    These bills were an omnibus package, which included the COVID-19 relief provisions, and the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
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    Perkins Reflects On Propane Council Progress Amid Unique Market Conditions

    Expanding its voice in the national energy conversation
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  • Join The National Energy Conversation

    Can you explain why propane is a clean fuel?
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  • Advocating For The Propane Industry In 2021

    NPGA is moving forward quickly on 2021 national and state initiatives.
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  • Increasing Uses And Users Amid “Electrify Everything” Challenge

    Regardless of whether the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC) meets virtually or in person, the 800-pound gorilla known as the “electrify everything movement” does not sit unnoticed for long. Once again, PERC met virtually on Nov. 10 due to the coronavirus to review and continue progress on the 2020-2022 Strategic Plan, which includes: • Increase Propane’s Voice in the National Energy Conversation; • Grow the Autogas Market Through Industry Adoption; • Create Market Growth Opportunities; and • Develop Skilled Workforce and Trade Allies Through Safety and Technical Training A top item on the agenda was a report from the Environmental Task Force, which has two representatives from PERC and two from the National Propane Gas Association (NPGA), to discuss messaging strategy to challenge electricity. “The ‘electrify everything movement’…
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  • A New “Energy Future”?

    By Joe Colaneri… Every four years, political pundits, historians, and other observers of our political process proclaim that this is the most important election in our history and that the future of democracy is at stake. This year’s election was influenced by a 100-year pandemic, so the institutional challenges and democratic vulnerabilities were likely impacted and exacerbated more than in so-called normal election cycles. “THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL ELECTION EVER?” The elegant aspect of America’s election process is that we vote nationally from the 30,000-ft level for president and we vote at the local grassroots level for Congress. The vote for president is essentially a vote for national approach and policy direction and the vote for Congress is for the details and how policy impacts at…
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  • The Biden Effect On Sale of Business Assets, Taxes

    By Steven Abbate… There is a lot of discussion of how a Biden presidency would affect business taxes and after-tax payouts on the sale of business assets. While we can’t project the future, especially where politics is involved, we can make some educated guesses. There was a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, titled “Read Joe Biden’s Lips: New Taxes.” The article went on to highlight Biden’s proposal for increasing taxes on high-wage earners and businesses. The No. 1 item that caught my eye was his proposal to eliminate the favorable capital gains tax on the sale of a business and to instead have the income be taxed as ordinary business income. This tax modification, coupled with an increase in the top corporate tax…
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  • Mobilizing Propane

    By Joe Colaneri… The coronavirus presents America and the world with the challenge of a generation. It will test our health, our economy, our communities, our national character, our collective will. And propane, one of America’s oldest and greatest industries, deeply embedded in the character of America, is poised to help lead the nation on the journey we will be taking together. Propane’s leadership will reflect America’s strength, indomitable spirit, sense of community—its resilience. THE CHALLENGE Long before the coronavirus began to dominate our lives, our very existence, the propane industry had begun facing its own existential threats with California being ground zero. The emergence of policies and regulations favoring electric vehicles and compromising propane’s historic markets had begun. Those trends are accelerating exponentially on…
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  • Oil Producers Brace for Post-Election Policy Shift

    (January 2, 2020) — Democrats are still months from naming a candidate in next year’s U.S. presidential campaign, but oil producers are already preparing for a policy change that threatens to disrupt nearly one-quarter of daily crude output and throw thousands of federal leases into legal limbo, reports S&P Global Platts. All Democratic presidential candidates have pushed some policy aimed at slowing U.S. oil production, which the Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts will average a record of nearly 13.4 MMbbld by the end of 2020, up more than 40% in just four years. These candidates have pledged to ban drilling on federal lands, and analysts expect that any potential election of a Democrat to the White House will likely lead to stricter limits on hydraulic…
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  • 2020 Policy and Political Challenges For Propane Industry

    By Joe Colaneri… THEMES OF ADVOCACY AND LEADERSHIP The 2020 presidential and congressional elections promise to be among the most contentious and consequential in American history. Against the backdrop of certain impeachment proceedings against the president, a presidential primary season in full swing—and congressional elections that could swing both houses of Congress toward the Democrats or the Republicans—or split control—and the prospect of a new president provide policy and political challenge for the propane industry. The propane industry itself is on the cusp of a new era in leadership and direction. For the first time in a generation, both the National Propane Gas Association (NPGA) and the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC) are under new management. Thus, the industry finds itself having to navigate…
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  • Propane Needs Seat At Table: Ensuring Policy Influence

    The U.S. propane market is changing. There are warning signs on the near-horizon, counsels ICF International’s 2019 propane market outlook. That cautionary forecast comes despite a national supply revolution that has yielded American-made fuel abundance unimagined just a short decade ago. Moreover, the Fairfax, Va.-based consultancy and business intelligence provider advises that the propane retail segment is at risk, a vulnerability that can only be blunted by a resolute, industrywide growth mindset to reverse negative trends and grow sales. By rethinking traditional business models and seizing available opportunities, the propane industry can, however, rise above the challenges. PERIOD OF MARKET TRANSITION ICF’s rundown recognizes that the propane industry has entered a period of market transition, driven by changing demographics, new technologies and, most critically, shifting…
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  • Point-Counterpoint: New Reality of Advocacy and Governance in 2019

    By Joe Colaneri… The 116th Congress is now in full swing, and while it has been difficult to read all of the political and policy tea leaves since the 2018 midterm elections, and after the government’s longest shutdown in history, some trends are now emerging. We can observe and speculate on the new reality on Capitol Hill even if we cannot, with certainty, predict policy outcomes. The outlines and character of a potentially new emerging Democratic majority will soon begin to become clear. All of this takes place in a highly charged political atmosphere shadowed by the upcoming 2020 presidential election, the fallout from the government shutdown, the newly divided government, the almost daily Democratic presidential candidate announcements, and the president’s own political vulnerabilities. Retrospective…
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