Scores of Southwest Missouri homes, schools, businesses and farms rely on propane for heat. It is ironic that Section 241 of the Clean Air Act recognizes propane as a clean alternative fuel while the new EPA rules are designed to discourage the use of this fuel. Stifling development of propane as an alternative fuel is likely to cause propane users to switch to heating sources the EPA lists as less environmentally desirable fuels. Common sense was missing when propane was added to the Risk Management Program. Propane is not toxic and should not be on the list of covered substances.
Propane is an efficient fuel that rural America has come to depend upon.
This appears to be another case of federal regulation mania which will harm the economy of rural America without justifiable returns. Tim Wilson with Town and Country Propane in Crane, Missouri agrees. The costs to stay in compliance with the new federal rule will certainly drive up costs. Our costs of doing business will have to be passed on somewhere. Propane isn't even toxic.