Heating oil has proved to be far more cost-effective than propane over the years, but right now propane prices are down, tempting some to make the switch.

The Energy Information Agency says prices for residential heating oil and propane are starting off at the same levels as last winter (October through March), when prices were the lowest in at ...

The price of liquid propane, used by many rural Iowans to heat their homes and businesses, has been soaring in recent days as demand exceeds supply. Harold Hommes of the Iowa Department of ...

Customers can expect to pay between 11 and 22 percent higher costs to heat their homes because of higher demand and higher prices of propane.

As prices become more competitive, Maine homeowners are increasingly turning away from oil as their primary heating source and using propane instead.

Low-income household who depend on heating oil and propane to warm their homes may start to face "tough choices about adequate food, medication and rent," says one advocate.

Propane pricing is volatile, and the average retail cost last week in New Jersey was as high as $3.75 per gallon, not including taxes, according to the Energy Information Administration.

A chart plotting the price of liquified propane, or LP gas, as it is commonly known, shows a fairly level line tracking between $1 and $2 per gallon since the early 1990s. In January, the line took… ...

Vernell Richardson, a semi-retired farmer on the western edge of Kane County, last year plunked down $1,951.57 to replace his old oil furnace with a new one that burns propane. Since then, the pric… ...